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		<title>Schools fading as the cyber blends into the real world</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/08/31/schools-fading-as-the-cyber-blends-into-the-real-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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Schooling has held cyberspace off at arms length for years, cringing at the dangers educators saw out there and touting a need they saw for education experts to guide and limit what students do out in the scary virtual world. The education establishment put walls around its stuff in the digital &#8220;out there&#8221; and walled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than 3 clicks builds competence</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/08/25/more-than-3-clicks-builds-competence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Cochrane makes some very interesting points in a blog post about possible paradoxes that are keeping kids from achieving in school. He makes a point I have never heard before, which he couches in terms of the persistence required in pursuing the complexity in playing video games as compared to the 1, 2, 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public (socialist) school shame is on front page, again</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/08/16/public-socialist-school-shame-is-on-front-page-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For six years now, billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has thrown everything he can at New York&#8217;s public schools to try to equalize student achievement. In an front page New York Times article today, titled Triumph Fades on Racial Gap in New York City Schools, we learn that:
. . . When results from the 2010 tests, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should blacks and Hispanics be sought for Elena Kagan&#8217;s high school?</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/08/05/should-blacks-and-hispanics-be-sought-for-elena-kagans-high-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a very revealing New York Times article today, a multiracial boy graduating from Elena Kagan&#8217;s elite Hunter public high school said this in his graduation speech:
“If you truly believe that the demographics of Hunter represent the distribution of intelligence in this city,” he said, “then you must believe that the Upper West Side, Bayside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government education are debacles doubling down</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/07/13/government-education-are-debacles-doubling-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Education is a deeply entrenched sector of liberal, government, progressive, public &#8212; whatever word you like &#8212; control and management. Federal control of this sector is increasing, and that is doubling down on debacles in the sector. The preceding statement is not speculation. An article in today&#8217;s Political gives background and details: The Democrats&#8217; education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Dumbledore</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/07/03/goodbye-dumbledore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1810</guid>
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Education at Hogwarts was shaken to the core by the murder of Albus P. W. B. Dumbledore the greatest Headmaster Hogwarts had ever seen. He was killed at the age of 116 years by Severus Snape, his friend. On the above video you can watch his scheduled death, memories and mourners.
Among the mourners seen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standardized education is a leveling tool of the liberal left</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/30/standardized-education-is-a-leveling-tool-of-the-liberal-left/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/30/standardized-education-is-a-leveling-tool-of-the-liberal-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The setting of the same median goal for all students levels individuals into masses. Sure, you can say you hope many students will do more than pass the minimum standard. Will they? Do they?
Their is an illuminating bit of trivia about all this in an obituary today in the New York Times. The quote that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To be honest with our three-year-olds, we must tell them this</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/27/to-be-honest-with-our-three-year-olds-we-must-tell-them-this/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/27/to-be-honest-with-our-three-year-olds-we-must-tell-them-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama is now completing only the second half of the second year of his Presidency it is clear: American education will breaking apart during your K-20 years. You may have learned an old rhyme. It describes precisely what will be happening as you go through your years of kindergarten, grammar, middle, and high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every kid who has a smart phone can read this poetry</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/24/every-kid-who-has-a-smart-phone-can-read-this-poetry/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/24/every-kid-who-has-a-smart-phone-can-read-this-poetry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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The picture of the girl reading American Negro Poetry is from the Gates Foundation website. Getting the analog book into her hands undoubtedly cost the foundation quite a bit of money. She could, instead, use her smartphone to read comprehensively in the Negro poetry genre for free.
If you will go to the page where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to do for kids while education roils</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/21/what-to-do-for-kids-while-education-roils/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/21/what-to-do-for-kids-while-education-roils/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are great words, with definitions from Merriam-Webster:
Roil means: to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs
These are the origins of turbid: Latin turbidus confused, disordered, turbid, from turba confusion, tumult, crowd; akin to Latin turbare to throw into disorder, disturb, make turbid
Turbulence means: wild unruly disorderly commotion : disposition to stormy unruliness [...]]]></description>
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