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Illinois Issues

�� A publication of the University of Illinois at Springfield

November 1999 VolumeXXV.No.11

subdivsions

Are subdivisions good for kids? page 30

childern

Have we let our children down? page 16

Catholic schools

Can Catholic schools survive? page 36

FEATURES

16 Have we let our children down?
by Jon Marshall
Illinois has made progress on the issues that matter most to kids. But we still have a long way to go.

24 No time to be a kid
by Jennifer Davis
Our children don't play freeze tag anymore. There's no time. And the kids are paying the price.

26 There's no single face on rebellion
by Josh Bluhm

30 Design isn't destiny
by James Krohe Jr.
Are subdivisions still good places to raise kids? Were they ever?

34 The Write Stuff
by Lisa Kernek
Illinois' third-graders are already training for their first academic Super Bowl. But has all the fun gone out of school?

36 Prayer of a chance
by Margaret Schroeder
Catholic schools are looking to the state's new tax credit to help solve financial problems. Will it really help in the long run?

DEPARTMENTS

3 Conversation with the Publisher
by Ed Wojcicki

4 Editor's Notebook
by Peggy Boyer Long

6 State of the State
by Burney Simpson
Public help for cyberventures?

8 Briefly
by Rodd Whelpley

40 People
by Rodd Whelpley

43 Your Turn
by David R. Olson
Illinois needs a 'rainy day' fund

45 A View from Chicago
by James Ylisela Jr.
Trouble with the public schools

46 Politics
by Charles N. Wheeler III
The Cuban trip is a sane decision

Credits: Fred Zwicky took the photograph on this month's cover. A preschool student at the Springfield Ball Charter School drew the image we used to illustrate graphic elements in the articles in this issue about the lives of children. The figure in the drawing is her teacher.

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