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USEFUL LINKS
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• You can't eat a whole box of Fannie Mae all at once/Mike Conver -- Practical PR.

• Reflections on a referendum/Peter S. Weber -- On the stump.

• Children and guns: A deadly combination -- Viewpoint

• What can we borrow from Japanese schools? Probably not much/Jean McGrew -- A first-hand look at Japan's acclaimed schools convinced the author that their principles would not transplant well to America.

• Music education: A necessity/Antonio J. Garcia  -- The evidence is overwhelming of the many benefits of music education for students--and adults.

• When children kill children/Jessica C. Billings -- Shootings in four American schools during the past year are raising difficult questions.

• The three Rs for wooing the public/Dorothy Rich -- Respect, reassurance and recognition will win public support for schools.

• What children bring to school/Debi S. Edmund -- Too many children's backpacks are heavy with more than books--they also carry fear, poverty, neglect and other ills into the classroom.  This article outlines two promising programs to help lighten the load for Illinois children.

• From theory to practice--The Manteno experience, part III/Richard Smelter, Dawn Russert/Dale Adams -- This is the final installment of the story of how a small Illinois school district went from no-tech to state of the art.