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	<title>HEM Editor's Blog &#187; Political Issues</title>
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		<title>Thoughts on &#8220;Get Schooled&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/706/thoughts-on-get-schooled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Faulconer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocating for home education is aplenty for me. A decade ago, I decided to make home education my focus rather than &#8220;school reform.&#8221; However, I still pay attention to efforts to reform public education. One of the latest is the high profile campaign, Get Schooled.
The Get Schooled website is snappy and well-edited. There&#8217;s no chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not-Back-To-School Celebrations</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/666/not-back-to-school-celebrations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Faulconer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeschooling families are not missing out on anything this time of year. They celebrate the season with Not-Back-To-School observances held throughout the United States and internationally. What some homeschoolers once felt slightly subversive about saying aloud is now a full-on tradition that homeschool families embrace in celebration of their freedom to homeschool.
Google reveals many Not-Back-To-School activities coming up, including (among the first pages of hits) celebrations in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Age Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/488/age-discrimination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading through the current issue of Education Revolution, I found an interesting article by Elana Davidson titled &#8220;Moving Beyond Age Discrimination,&#8221; with this highlighted quote:
&#8220;Children are the only classification of citizens in our society against whom discriminatory abuse is not only legal, but actually encouraged and carried out by laws themselves.&#8221;
What is age discrimination? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research?</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/448/research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When homeschoolers agree to participate in research, they are also agreeing that homeschooling can and should be measured by the categories and terms that researchers choose. In other words, homeschoolers who participate in research are agreeing that the important parts of homeschooling, or at least the criteria by which it should be judged, are things like number of hours spent "teaching" or "studying," standardized test scores, etc. The most insidious outcome from this condition is that people no longer trust their own knowledge, experience, and judgment about themselves and their children. Homeschoolers become an illustration of some research study rather than the richer reality they really are.]]></description>
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		<title>One Perspective on Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/355/one-perspective-on-homeschooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The calls for more accountability in our education system promise a better educational system. Yet, I have to wonder if there isn't systemic corruption inherent in the way we choose to measure success? As homeschoolers are being pushed to be more like schools, can we challenge the measure of success for our kids? Is our goal raising kids or raising test scores?]]></description>
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