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		<title>It&#8217;s Not the Homeschooling, ctd.</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4516/its-not-the-homeschooling-ctd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activist homeschoolers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters to Editors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calista Springer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children with special needs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Pearl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stricter homeschool laws]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Homeschooler Jamie Rhodes has her Viewpoint published:

Parents choose to homeschool for a variety of reasons by Jamie Rhodes.
This is in response to the editorial, article and letters calling for stricter homeschool guidelines and laws. There are many points of view, however the general theme seems to be that public institutions offer a place where children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short-term Homeschooling: Why Bother?</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4524/short-term-homeschooling-why-bother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reasons to Homeschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temporary Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Brodie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love in a Time of Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reason to homeschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short-term homeschooling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Psychology Today blogger, Laura Brodie, decided to give her daughter a break from the school routine:
Many lifelong homeschoolers will wince at the thought of short-term ventures. For them, homeschooling is a way of life, not a year off. The potential benefits of home education (strong family ties, increased academic achievement) develop gradually over time, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey! Hollywood! Leave our kids alone!</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4502/hey-hollywood-leave-our-kids-alone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4502/hey-hollywood-leave-our-kids-alone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Op/eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brainwashing our children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporations in eudcation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Puttnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a homeschooling neighbor to the north comes a warning about corporate interests in education. Writing on agoravox.com he revisits an old post and puts current events into perspective:

“A very dark, very frightening corporate scheme is being carefully orchestrated around the world with the full and active support and cooperation of governments and public administrations.
“The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lacking Accountability, Doing Just Fine</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4493/lacking-accountability-doing-just-fine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4493/lacking-accountability-doing-just-fine/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Op/eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity and imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experienced voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning styles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school teacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sidney Trubowitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test scores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workbook exercises]]></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>Around, and around they go&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4478/around-and-around-they-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4478/around-and-around-they-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common norms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Child Left Behind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Hess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Education Week blogger Rick Hess writes about the latest round of education reform and where the players are in their thinking &#8211; now:
Why Diane and Duncan Are Making the Same Mistake.
Diane [Ravitch] is now making the same mistake, in reverse, that she and so many school choice and accountability enthusiasts made in the 1990s (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stereotype Buster</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4461/stereotype-buster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4461/stereotype-buster/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[children and learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschool moms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschool stereotypes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misty Krasawski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious homeschoolers]]></category>
		<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>Culture War Bait &#8211; Redux</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4458/culture-war-bait-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4458/culture-war-bait-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activist homeschoolers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Articles About Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discouraging words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apologia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Jones University Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dylan Lovan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelical Christians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Coyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secular standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state education standards]]></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>Homeschoolers Protest Library Closing &#8211; update</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4449/homeschoolers-protest-library-closing-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4449/homeschoolers-protest-library-closing-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activist homeschoolers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschool activist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschoolers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[library resource]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NC homeschoolers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Garner Area Homeschoolers are still at work trying to save their Southeast Regional Library in Garner, NC. They have produced a number of videos to help get the word out:

Interested in a bit edgier version of the protest video?
View more videos on the Garner Area Homeschoolers Facebook Page
]]></description>
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		<title>Homeschooling in the Immigration Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4441/homeschooling-in-the-immigration-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4441/homeschooling-in-the-immigration-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activist homeschoolers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixing Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Op/eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSLDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romeike Family Asylum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The editorial, &#8220;Home school &#8211; The Europeans don&#8217;t like it,&#8221; on the Las Vegas Review-Journal nudges the Romeike family&#8217;s asylum into immigration reform territory.
Immigration has long been a wedge issue and the any reform effort is assured to be hotly debated, with rounds and rounds of emotional pleas by those on all sides. And, now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture War Bait&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4436/culture-war-bait/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4436/culture-war-bait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discouraging words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture wars]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[evangelical Christians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution
The article itself is a throw-away piece which builds itself on too many assumptions to be taking seriously. The fight being picked is real, and a losing one for homeschoooling. 
Culture wars do us no good because homeschooolers need a broad base of support to maintain our ability to raise [...]]]></description>
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