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	<description>Exploring homeschooling issues, ideas, and more</description>
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		<title>Homeschoolers and Achievement Tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achievement tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative thinkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divergent thinkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Yvonne Fournier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Yvonne Fournier answering questions from a homeschooling family which moved to a testing state. Some highlights about the inherent tension between homeschooling and achievement tests:

Hassle-Free Homework: Achievement Tests Contribute To America&#8217;s Decline
By Dr. Yvonne Fournier,
U.S. School System Discourages Divergent, Creative Thinkers
In a world that begs for divergent thinkers (people who can think &#8220;outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeschoolers Compete</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activist homeschoolers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grown Homeschoolers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christian Home School Athletic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drury University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home-school recruit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kylie Williamson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Bible Bee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panaca's Cookie Crumb Trail Contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob McNealy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Greater Sioux Falls Home School Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Congressional District 6]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Homeschoolers compete in a lot of different kinds of contests:
From the Lincoln County Record, Pioche, NV &#8211; Established September 12, 1870

Panaca&#8217;s Cookie Crumb Trail Contest
By Angela Musser
The Christmas Tree Ornament Contest for Panaca&#8217;s Town Tree is now open to public and home school students.

Argus Leader - Sioux Falls, SD

Home-school team wins annual quiz bowl
For the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race to the Top Final Application Released</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3892/race-to-the-top-final-application-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Gregoire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing directly impacting homeschoolers yet, but.. But what really?
There are powerful forces at play with a vested interest in the institution of education. Couple calls for legislative reform with the common standards initiative, mix it up with the mad dash for the money, and homeschoolers can not afford to ignore these reforms, panic about them, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st Reading New Iowa Homeschool Rules</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3889/1st-reading-niowa-homeschool-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[admission requirements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[home-schooling program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschool rules]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iowa City School Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lane Plugge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policy changes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iowa City Superintendent, Lane Plugge says, &#8220;If you want a diploma, you have to go to school here:&#8221;

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		<title>Making Waves in Academia and Cyberspace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grown Homeschoolers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Meyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching math]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are concerned about homeschooling your kids you can find encouragement in this story from The Ukiah Daily Journal:

Mathematics, Meyer Style
By Carole Brodsky
Ukiahan making waves in academia and cyberspace
For the Daily Journal
Holiday shoppers can thank Dan Meyer and his Ukiah High instructors for helping them shave precious minutes off their waiting time in crowded [...]]]></description>
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