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		<title>Young Arabs are more connected to knowledge</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2011/04/13/young-arabs-are-more-connected-to-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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Gallup reports this week that: Young Arabs More Connected in 2010: Cell phone access jumps in low- and middle-income countries. The above chart is from the Gallup report, which begins:
WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Technology&#8217;s pivotal role in the change that swept the Arab world in late 2010 and early 2011 underscores how quickly its young people [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
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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>Save a teacher and some trees with virtual resources</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/10/save-a-teacher-and-some-trees-with-virtual-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/10/save-a-teacher-and-some-trees-with-virtual-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As failing socialized education once more is cutting teachers and looking to pour federal tax paid money to save salaries of some of them, why not do something different: cut textbook costs by delivering learning content using mobiles. Roughly speaking, one teacher&#8217;s salary of $100,000 could provide 100 students with a smart phone for each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chaos crisis pushes Obamaschool, not kids, over a slippery slope</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/05/30/chaos-crisis-pushes-obamaschool-not-kids-over-a-slippery-slope/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/05/30/chaos-crisis-pushes-obamaschool-not-kids-over-a-slippery-slope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 14:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obamaschool]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have arrived at a fork in the road for education caused because states and local governments do not have enough money for schools.  There are those who think that the Obama administration is intentionally forcing change by creating economic chaos. (See Control Through Chaos Theory below).
The Obamaschool fork in the education road is toward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watching top down messaging disempowered by network laws</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/05/10/watching-top-down-messaging-disempowered-by-network-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/05/10/watching-top-down-messaging-disempowered-by-network-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 15:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1584</guid>
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Controlling the message from the top down used to work very well, giving great power to tyrants who were good at message control. Times, though, have changed: the internet releases unlimited messages to flow freely outward from individuals, creating patterns of ideas, discourse, debate, and dissent.
The youth singing in the video above are indoctrinated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open educational resources (OER) and the FedEd Tar Baby</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/04/13/open-educational-resources-oer-and-the-feded-tar-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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A Chronicle of Higher Education article reported yesterday the latest indications of what the Obama federal educators are doing in what they call the &#8220;open&#8221; online area. The great old Uncle Remus story Br&#8217;er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby* describes what is happening perfectly, as here, from Wikipedia:

The Tar-Baby was a doll made [by Br'er Fox] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamaschool federal grab update from the New York Times</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/04/05/obamaschool-federal-grab-update-from-the-new-york-times/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/04/05/obamaschool-federal-grab-update-from-the-new-york-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;States Skeptical About ‘Race to Top’ School Aid Contest&#8221; is a New York Times front page headline today. The Times, which has been generally supportive of the Obama administration, captures the sense of federal power moves in this quote from Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. describing how his state lost in the contest for Race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online course federal funding dropped in closed door sessions</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/03/31/online-course-federal-funding-dropped-in-closed-door-sessions/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/03/31/online-course-federal-funding-dropped-in-closed-door-sessions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The White House proposals called the American Graduation Initiative (AGI) were dropped from the package of education spending that was folded into the health reconciliation bill that has now been passed by Congress and signed by the President. The education legislation, which moved the student loan program into federal control, was not debated in Congress. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the blob horizon handschooling begins anyway</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/03/15/beyond-the-blob-horizon-handschooling-begins-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/03/15/beyond-the-blob-horizon-handschooling-begins-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1196</guid>
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It is breathtakingly disappointing that Obama education policies both ignore handschooling and dangle billions of dollars that will keep injecting the education blob with political clout. The Obama proposals perpetuate and shape the blob, and will keep federal bureaucratic hands all over it.
Today Democrats posted a shell reconciliation bill that includes proposed language of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government education moving fast to control student loans completely</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/03/08/government-education-moving-fast-to-control-student-loans-completely/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/03/08/government-education-moving-fast-to-control-student-loans-completely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To readers who may think I am imagining the reach in Washington to take over American education, I recommend this Opinion piece in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal: That Other Government Takeover: What else may go into &#8216;reconciliation.&#8217;

Everyone knows Democrats are planning to use the budget reconciliation process to get ObamaCare through the Senate. Less well [...]]]></description>
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