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		<title>A demo of nurture and teaching</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/07/20/a-demo-of-nurture-and-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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So often when one argues for using online content in learning the argument is raised: Oh, but you have to have nurture and teaching. Of course. This 7-week old Pallas&#8217; Cat kittens make the point that youngsters of all sorts need the skill and patience of faithful adults. 
Thanks to ZooBorns, where you can see [...]]]></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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		<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>Government money underwrites Gulf region university branches</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/07/07/government-money-underwrites-gulf-region-university-branches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Next]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gulf education fiscal government role in the availability of Western top university branches is described in a Chronicle of Higher Education article, that says in part:
Michigan State University is canceling all undergraduate programs at its branch campus in Dubai, effectively reducing what was meant to be the university&#8217;s beachhead in the Middle East to [...]]]></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>
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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=1754</guid>
		<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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		<title>Education needs an emergence wake-up call</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/19/education-needs-an-emergence-wake-up-call/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/19/education-needs-an-emergence-wake-up-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[complexity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As emergence shook biology loose from physics in the 20th century, emergence will pry preconceived curricula from the natural networking of knowledge. So far, the education establishment has shrugged off the emergence of knowledge online, and hence is blithely unaware that human learning is entering a global golden age.
Paul Davies described in Edge, how scientists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would John have done with a smart phone?</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/12/what-would-john-have-done-with-a-smart-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/06/12/what-would-john-have-done-with-a-smart-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would the slave boys shown in a newly discovered 1860ish photo have been able to do if they had had mobile devices connected to the internet in their pockets? The discovery of the photo, with its attached record of John&#8217;s sale for $1,150 in 1854, is causing an outpouring of remarks about the way [...]]]></description>
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