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	<title>News &#38; Commentary &#187; Encouraging Words</title>
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		<title>Lacking Accountability, Doing Just Fine</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4493/lacking-accountability-doing-just-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encouraging Words]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sidney Trubowitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test scores]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of more chiding because I find encouraging words from a teacher &#8211; who may belong to a union &#8211; I am suggesting you read Lacking Accountability, Doing Just Fine, A Teacher&#8217;s First Classroom&#8211;50 Years Ago, by Sidney Trubowitz.

[The] persistent soundings about accountability and test results have caused me to look back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stereotype Buster</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4461/stereotype-buster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encouraging Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Matters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homeschool stereotypes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Misty Krasawski]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stereotyping homeschoolers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stereotypes are easier to find than people looking for balance and understanding. From
Misty Krasawski&#8217;s article, 1 Corinthians 13 for Homeschool Moms:

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and my formal dining room gets turned into a schoolroom and our family vacations look more like educational fieldtrips, and if I surrender my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science as Homeschool Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4411/science-as-homeschool-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encouraging Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschool science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Lind Schmitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science geek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Science as Homeschool Culture.
Jenny Lynn schmidt writes the &#8220;Adventures in Homeschooling&#8221; blog on Psychology Today&#8217;s website. Her March post is a story about science in her homeschool:

I am exhausted. Today was Science Co-op. Science Co-op tends to wear me out, but I love it. I confess that I am an artsy-fartsy science geek posing as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Certified teacher joins homeschool world</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4351/certified-teacher-joins-homeschool-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4351/certified-teacher-joins-homeschool-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encouraging Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Op/eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary education degree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschool support group]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[public school teacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulating homeschooling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article is a must read:

In 2006, I took the leap from public school teacher to home-school mom for my kindergarten daughter. I did what most home-school mothers do and joined a home-school group for support. To be honest, I thought I would be lending most of the support. I had the elementary education degree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Parents Opting For Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4032/more-parents-opting-for-homeschooling-bangalore-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4032/more-parents-opting-for-homeschooling-bangalore-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unschooling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling in India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pleasure in learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading the headline, More Parents Opting For Homeschooling, in my newsreader I thought I knew what I would find. But when I followed the link:

Does your child hate going to school? Is she stressed out, pressurized and overloaded? Or, are you sick of the conventional schooling system? Simple, don&#8217;t send them to school. Try homeschooling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uplifting the Discourse</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3963/uplifting-the-discourse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Encouraging Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blaming others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future homeschooler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Garris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A piece by &#8220;future homeschooler&#8221;, Michelle Garris, on the Prattsville Progress&#8217; website wins the week&#8217;s award for her attempt to uplift the discourse:

Stop blaming others and start doing something
I&#8217;ve been hearing myself and others complain and point fingers for far too long. How many blame their spouse for a troubled or even a mediocre marriage? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeschooling Because We Can</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3863/homeschooling-because-we-can/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3863/homeschooling-because-we-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encouraging Words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an article titled If School Is Cool, We Win, Author John Lewis takes us through his family&#8217;s first day of the school year through their approach to homeschooling. A few enlightening takes on the usual questions. Why we homeschool:

My wife Anne and I have been homeschooling our children for the past two years.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut-On being a &#8220;self-learner&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3657/connecticut-on-being-a-self-learner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3657/connecticut-on-being-a-self-learner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maxx Berkowitz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woodbury teen (un) schooled in ways of the world REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
BY MATT JOHNSON
&#8220;I really got a sense of being a self-learner,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When you&#8217;re unschooled, you never stop learning just because you leave the classroom. I know how to seek the information that I want, and that&#8217;s huge in college.&#8221;
But while he was able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky-The Flexibility of Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3635/kentucky-the-flexibility-of-homeschooling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3635/kentucky-the-flexibility-of-homeschooling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[General News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer breaks are different for home school families The News-Enterprise
By KELLY R. CANTRALL
Ingalls began home schooling her children because of her husband’s job in the military, which necessitated several moves for the family, she said. The accommodating nature of home schooling made the moves easier, including this past school year, when the Ingalls thought they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Homeschooling-Don&#8217;t Ask Alice</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3591/oregon-homeschooling-dont-ask-alice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3591/oregon-homeschooling-dont-ask-alice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discouraging words]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hilda Rosselli]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tara Atkinson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Willamette Valley Homeschooling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Home school in the Willamette Valley
By Therese ONeill WillametteLive
If there remains one way to shock friends and family in an open-minded 21st century society, it is to tell them that you are considering home-schooling your children.
Home education is a burdened concept, calling to mind the odd classmate from high school that couldn’t make eye contact [...]]]></description>
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