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		<title>Thoughts on &#8220;Get Schooled&#8221;</title>
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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>Age Discrimination</title>
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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>H1N1 Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/451/h1n1-homeschooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 07:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was inevitable: People are starting to wonder if this latest health scare and the resulting closure of schools isn't going to lead to an epidemic... of new homeschoolers. Some interesting notes about swine flu and homeschooling from around the Internet.
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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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		<category><![CDATA[accountability in our education system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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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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		<title>Obama and Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/311/obama-and-homeschooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen an interesting letter referenced on blogs and lists a couple of times now, in response to a November 12 fund-raising alert from HSLDA, which stated in part: &#8220;&#8230;And whenever private educators accept grants and benefits, there are conditions to receiving those benefits, including being subject to regulation. Just because the federal government has [...]]]></description>
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