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		<title>Culture War Bait &#8211; Redux</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4458/culture-war-bait-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activist homeschoolers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his site, the scientist Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True and quoted in the recent AP piece by Dylan Lovan, fills us in on his experiences since the AP piece ran:

For no particular reason I could fathom, I began receiving all kinds of religous loon-mail today, including denunciations of evolution, pictures of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science as Homeschool Culture</title>
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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>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[elementary education degree]]></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>Homeschooled Olympians</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4296/homeschooled-olympians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4296/homeschooled-olympians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Hegener</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homeschool sports]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Katie Hoff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sal Ruibal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaun White]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Homeschooling is an option for many kids with demanding training schedules and a dedicated parent or tutor. USA Today reported in 2005 on the growing trend to homeschool elite athletes, with reporter Sal Ruibal noting that athletes who are homeschooled have the flexibility to get adequate workout time, nutrition and rest—something a traditional school would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad economy may be fueling homeschooling trend</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4113/bad-economy-may-be-fueling-homeschooling-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4113/bad-economy-may-be-fueling-homeschooling-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeschool History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denise-Marie Balona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida homeschooling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is never certain if an article headlined as homeschooling really is about homeschooling. All to frequently they are about mis-labeled public or private school programs, is more about an editor&#8217;s bias than homeschooling, or the reporter never breaks free from a schoolish headset.
This piece is about homeschooling. The reporter starts out well by capturing [...]]]></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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		<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>Arrest Story Goes Viral</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3958/arrest-story-goes-viral/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3958/arrest-story-goes-viral/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wrap-up  of sorts to the New York arrest case:

Stories about this couple went viral on the Internet. Now both the sheriff and the school superintendant say they&#8217;ve been inundated with angry reaction from across the country.
Just browse the blogoshere and you&#8217;ll see a tirade of reaction to a local home schooling case.
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&#8220;They either [...]]]></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>Economy drives more parents to homeschool</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3818/economy-drives-parents-to-homeschool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3818/economy-drives-parents-to-homeschool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina homeschooling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article on The Greenville News&#8217; site points to the economy as a reasons for an increasing number of families choosing to homeschool.

With 345 students enrolled this school year, the Upstate Homeschool Co-op has seen its numbers swell dramatically since it first began as a small study group in Suzanne Brown’s Taylors home for her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland- Unschooling &#8220;research needed in order to justify it&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3799/maryland-unschooling-research-needed-in-order-to-justify-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3799/maryland-unschooling-research-needed-in-order-to-justify-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From home schooling to &#8216;unschooling&#8217;
By Joe Burris of the Baltimore Sun
If most [people] think back to their own school experiences, how much of the information you were expected to learn do you know today?&#8221; added Conner, an unschooling parent. &#8220;We cannot know beyond the shadow of a doubt precisely what our children will need when [...]]]></description>
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