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		<title>Why race to the top when a student can be on top of knowledge now?</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/09/11/why-race-to-the-top-when-a-student-can-be-on-top-of-knowledge-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blogging here has slowed down because I am working on finishing an eBook about handschooling. Hopefully, I can make it available here before the end of September.
Today, though, I must respond to the inexcusable arrogance about bribing educators with tax money that Obama showed yesterday in his press conference. I cannot find the transcript [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<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>Do you approve of Obama stepping into local school management?</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/03/07/do-you-approve-of-obama-stepping-into-local-school-management/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/03/07/do-you-approve-of-obama-stepping-into-local-school-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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Your school superintendent directs restaffing of your child&#8217;s school; the President of the United States publicly approves of what the superintendent did. This week, exactly that happened, as this front page New York Times story reports: School’s Shake-Up Is Embraced by the President. The reaction was mixed, but not the way you might think. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Race to the Top locks in a diploma bell curve</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/02/07/obamas-race-to-the-top-locks-in-a-diploma-bell-curve/</link>
		<comments>http://handschooling.com/2010/02/07/obamas-race-to-the-top-locks-in-a-diploma-bell-curve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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The Race to the Top is granting $4 billion American taxpayer dollars to the states for &#8220;reforming&#8221; public schools. The program&#8217;s webpage at Ed.gov gives this bottom line explanation:
Race to the Top winners will help trail-blaze effective reforms and provide examples for States and local school districts throughout the country to follow as they too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How we can keep Obama from creating underclass youth by taking over American education</title>
		<link>http://handschooling.com/2010/02/05/how-we-can-keep-obama-from-creating-underclass-youth-by-taking-over-american-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Breck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://handschooling.com/?p=393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the post today that I have written about in the comments that follow has changed my approach. The need to stop the further socialization of learning has become critical, with what Obama is pushing. In the face of that threat, Handschooling is a major way to get local nurture and individual teaching to the [...]]]></description>
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