February 1997 Issue 254

Departments

Contributors

Correspondence

Sunbeams

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Our Days
Mary Cross

Reading Between The Lines
How Compulsory Schooling Has Failed Us

John Taylor Gatto

To Raze A Village
The Modernization Of A Thousand-Year-Old Culture

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Mom
Andrew Ramer

If I Were God
Pat Schneider

Fiction

Green-Eyed Dog
Poe Ballantine

Annie, The Loaves And The Fishes
Jane Webster

Poetry

Nit Wit
Sparrow

Star-Struck Utopias Of 2000
Antler

One More Morning
Sue Versenyi

Love, 1981
Alison Luterman

Readers Write

Utopia