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			<title><![CDATA[ U-Md. Professor, Students Create Electric Guitar That Allows Customized Sounds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Bruce Jacob had a few songs he wanted to record, tunes that had been jangling around in his head for years. He bought a guitar, but the notes he played never sounded as good as the music he had imagined.
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			<dc:creator>Susan Kinzie</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Md. School Joins Test of Online Courses Tailored to Girls ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When the Online School for Girls flickers to life this fall on computer screens across the country, students will take part in an unusual experiment that joins two trends: girls-only schooling and online teaching.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For Area Hondurans, Coup Back Home Sparks Worries for Families, Future ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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They are far from the rioting and bloodshed that have thrust their home country into the daily news, but for Hondurans living in the Washington area and beyond, the coup d'etat last week has reached into their lives in ways many hadn't expected.
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			<dc:creator>Tara Bahrampour</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Howard, Md., Community College Brings Graduation to 79-Year-Old Graduate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Howard Community College yesterday held a graduation for one.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ ETS Creates Rating System for Graduate School Applicants' Personality Traits ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Educational Testing Service wanted to help graduate school applicants prove they are more than a set of test scores. So it developed a tool to rate students across a broad sweep of traits -- creativity, teamwork, integrity -- that admission tests don't measure.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ritz Camera Warns of Possible Liquidation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Ritz Camera, the ubiquitous national photo chain that got its start as an Atlantic City portrait studio 91 years ago, said yesterday it is unable to raise the cash it needs to operate through the summer.
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			<dc:creator>V. Dion Haynes and Emma L. Carew</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Business Coach Anne Loehr Tries to Bridge Diverse Generations: X, Y, Baby Boomer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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High atop the august Tower Club in Fairfax County, overlooking the glass-and-steel edge city of Tysons Corner, business coach Anne Loehr is teaching 20 executives, mainly baby boomers, how to crack one of society's most vexing workplace problems -- how to deal with their youngest employees or cli...
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			<dc:creator>Ian Shapira</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Beltsville Elementary School Principal Retires ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When students at Beltsville Elementary School report to school Aug. 24, it will be the first time in nearly 30 years that Stephen Beegle won't be there to greet them.
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			<dc:creator>David Hill</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Nickles Weighs Change in Policy Allowing D.C. Social Workers to Use Own Vehicles ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles is weighing a change in the policy that allows social workers to drive their personal vehicles to get to residents, citing liability issues surrounding the use by city employees of private vehicles for government business.
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			<dc:creator>Nikita Stewart and Bill Turque</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prince George's, Md., Schools Laying Off Many Latino Parent Liaisons ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For two years, Benjamin Santamaria helped Spanish-speaking parents and students at University Park Elementary in Hyattsville navigate the public school system. This school year, those parents and students will be without him.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Peer Review Programs Offer Mentorship to Struggling Teachers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Jean Bernstein rang a cowbell, her cue to quiet the sixth-graders at Roberto Clemente Middle School for a lesson on multiplying decimals. "You need to settle down," she said.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Local Office Vacancies Soar, Driving Down Rent ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Declining demand from companies seeking new space forces building owners to push down rents to fill empty space.
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			<dc:creator>V. Dion Haynes</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Don't Mess With Success at This High-Achieving Charter Middle School ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Sometime last year, while negotiating a teacher contract for the KIPP Ujima Village charter middle school in Baltimore, founder Jason Botel pointed out that his students, mostly from low- income families, had earned the city's highest public school test scores three years in a row. If the union...
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			<dc:creator>Jay Mathews</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Southeastern University Graduates the Class of 2009, Which Could Be Its Last ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In most ways, yesterday's Southeastern University graduation was like most others in the history of the 130-year-old school -- grinning graduates, camera flashes, the solemn rendering of "Pomp and Circumstance." But the Class of 2009 was probably the school's last.
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			<dc:creator>Annie Gowen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Even in Tough Times, Fourth of July in the D.C. Area Inspires ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Helen Ingallis marched through the Palisades section of Washington, waving an American flag for the first time in her 55 years. David and Laurie Souder staked out a spot on the Mall and shared a $9 plate of fried fish, celebrating on a budget. Vera Nathan and Shenevia Willingham sat at a table in a...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tutoring Centers Also Show Korean Americans the World Outside the Classroom ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When Aran Park directed a tutoring center in South Korea, her workday ended at 3 a.m. That's when her last class let out. "We have a saying in Korea: If you sleep three hours, you succeed; if you sleep four hours, you fail," she said.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Alison Chandler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Area Schools Face Shortage of Black Male Teachers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Tynita Johnson had attended predominantly black schools in Prince George's County for 10 years when she walked into Will Thomas's AP government class last August and found something she had never seen.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Metro Crash Survivor Says His Long Reliance on Prayer Saw Him Through ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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At 6 feet tall and 240 pounds of muscle, Daryl Smith Jr. cuts an imposing figure. It was that brawny build many passengers recalled after last week's deadly Metro train crash.
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			<dc:creator>William Wan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ After Brutal Attack, a Proud Homeless Man Surrenders to Church's Generosity ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Many people in Capitol Hill know him as Alex, a homeless man who for decades could be found around St. Peter's Catholic Church. Instead of shooing him away from the stately 19th-century building, parishioners greeted him at First Communion parties, wedding receptions and Sunday coffee hours.
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			<dc:creator>Theola Labbé-DeBose</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Naval Academy Professor Challenges School's Push for Diversity ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Of the 1,230 plebes who took the oath of office at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis this week, 435 were members of minority groups. It's the most racially diverse class in the academy's 164-year history.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ L.A. Group in Talks to Run D.C. High School ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is talking to a Los Angeles nonprofit group that has improved one of that city's most troubled high schools about running at least one low-achieving high school in the District, expanding her strategy of pursuing outside partners to manage public schools.
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			<dc:creator>Bill Turque</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prince George's County School Board Approves a Strained Budget ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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After six months of constant debate and twists and turns of fortune, the Prince George's County school system has set a budget for the next year.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Montgomery County Planning Board Chairman Royce Hanson said he wasn't worried about tie votes last week when he explained his desire to keep John Robinson on the board through most of July, saying he wanted to capitalize on Robinson's expertise and years of work on several issues that the board...
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			<dc:creator>Miranda S. Spivack and Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Community Colleges See Demand Increase as Funding Decreases ]]></title>
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Hundreds of thousands of students are likely to be turned away from low-cost community colleges across the country over the next year because of funding cuts at the very time that record numbers of students are flocking to the open-admission schools, according to education officials.
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			<dc:creator>Valerie Strauss</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery, Md., Schools Made Teen Wait and Wait to Go to School ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Jeff Sukkasem is a U.S. citizen and legal resident of Montgomery County, with a passport, a library card and a volunteer job at a local Thai Buddhist temple. For the past two years, however, he essentially has been barred from public school.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 'Hunger Doesn't Take a Summer Break' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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If Montgomery County weren't handing out free lunches this summer, Ariana Rodriguez might have gone hungry yesterday. But the bright-eyed 8-year-old walked through the Rolling Terrace Elementary School cafeteria clenching an apple in her teeth before she sat down to a meal.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Education Dept. Dumps Symbolic Schoolhouse of No Child Left Behind ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Seven years ago, a rally at the Department of Education promoted one of then-President George W. Bush's most significant domestic achievements -- the No Child Left Behind law. The backdrop: a red schoolhouse.
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			<dc:creator>Maria Glod</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Virginia Woman's Life Revolves Around Disabled Great-Granddaughter ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For Gail Ertel, who has 11 grown children, the golden years are all about McKenzie. She changes her diapers. Picks up her dropped toys and spilled cereal. Reads from her favorite storybooks. Sings as she sways the child in her mesh cocoon of a swing.
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			<dc:creator>Donna St. George</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prince George's County School System Tackles High Number of Suspensions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The epicenter of trouble at G. James Gholson Middle School used to be the cafeteria.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rumors and Theories Swirl Around Protests ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Almost as soon as the crackdown on protesters began in Tehran, rumors started to spread: Those doing the shooting were not Iranians.
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			<dc:creator>Tara Bahrampour</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hoop Dreams Scholarship Program Comes to the End of Its Run ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Susie Kay, a white teacher at the District's H.D. Woodson High School, stood 5-foot-2 but had big dreams for her mostly black students: She wanted them to go to college. What is more, she made it happen.
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			<dc:creator>Martin Ricard</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Study: Some D.C. Public Charters Still Discourage Special-Ed Pupils' Enrollment ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Some D.C. public charter schools continue selective admissions practices that discourage special-needs students from enrolling, and students citywide with possible disabilities still face delays in special education evaluations, a federal court monitor said this week.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Some Professors Losing Their Twitter Jitters ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Mary Knudson requires students in her medical writing class to Twitter from a scientific conference and to write narratives in no more than 140 characters -- academia in disposable snippets.
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			<dc:creator>Susan Kinzie</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Washington Area School Systems' Tweets Are a One-Way Street ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Twittr not jst for college profs: local schools r tweeting 2. Ffax in April, MoCo last wk & PW this summer. 140 characters good 4 qwik news.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hospitals Preparing Triage for Budgets ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Washington-area hospitals, already battered by the recession, are bracing for what could be a budget crisis in coming months resulting from funding cutbacks by Virginia and Maryland.
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			<dc:creator>V. Dion Haynes</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery Planners Push for Project's Approval Before Moratorium Takes Effect ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Montgomery County planning officials are trying to help a developer win quick approval of an 18-story apartment building and nearby commercial office building in Bethesda before a housing moratorium takes effect because of school crowding.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prince George's County Board of Education May Name Upper Marlboro School After Obama ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama's name would grace a new Prince George's County elementary school a few miles from the White House under a proposal scheduled for a vote tonight, barely five months after he took office.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Injured or Dying, Metro Crash Victims Tried to Comfort Each Other ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Lying in Howard University Hospital's intensive care unit yesterday, the teenage girl with the whisper-soft voice said she didn't remember much about the Metro crash. But the thing Lanice Beasley kept recalling was the older woman who talked to her even as she was dying beside her on the ground n...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Optimism Growing Among Area Executives, Poll Shows ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Washington area business owners and executives are trying to be optimistic about their prospects for the months ahead, according to a poll to be released today: Fifty of 200 surveyed -- about twice the number who felt this way in February -- say they likely will expand their staffs within the next...
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A team of very smart teenagers has set out to discover ways that maggots might make the world a better place. Two are from Loudoun County. Two live more than 9,000 miles away in Singapore.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Undocumented Students Stage Mock Graduation Ceremony in Support of Dream Act ]]></title>
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Every June for the past eight years, hundreds of undocumented high school and college students have traveled to Washington from across the country and urged Congress to pass a bill that would make it easier for them to become citizens and pursue higher education.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Many Area Charities Have Too Little Funding in Reserve, New Report Finds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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More than half of Washington area charities had dangerously low operating reserves even before the recession began, leaving them especially vulnerable to service reductions in a time of sharply declining revenue, according to a new report.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Duncan to Announce Planned Overhaul of Student Aid Form ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan is expected to announce today an effort to streamline the complicated process of applying for federal financial aid for college.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Injured or Dying, Metro Crash Victims Tried to Comfort Each Other ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Lying in Howard University Hospital's intensive care unit yesterday, the teenage girl with the whisper-soft voice said she didn't remember much about the Metro crash. But the thing Lanice Beasley kept recalling was the older woman who talked to her even as she was dying beside her on the ground n...
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			<title><![CDATA[ 'Summer Brain Drain' Robs Some Students of Skills Gained During School Year ]]></title>
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It's called "the summer brain drain" because during those long, hot months away from school, kids supposedly forget a lot of what they had learned in class.
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For many veterans, the ambitious new GI Bill is a great deal: The federal government will cover the cost of state universities and share the cost of more-expensive private colleges if the schools choose to fund scholarships to close that gap. That means many of the most selective schools, such as...
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In high schools in and around Washington, artificial turf is becoming an athletic status symbol.
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To the list of collegiate types -- nerds, jocks, Greeks -- add one more: spies in training. The government is hoping they'll be hard to spot.
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One of the more dramatic video clips from Iran this week showed a man in an upper-floor window firing onto demonstrators outside a building near Tehran's Azadi Square, killing at least one and wounding others.
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D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, following through on promises to dismiss teachers deemed ineffective, has fired about 250 tenured and novice instructors this week for poor performance or failure to obtain a license, union officials said yesterday.
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An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick's infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn't know whether dangerous toxins were missing.
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Fifteen-year-old Simon Lhuillier wants to become a pediatrician when he grows up and buy a big house near a lake. Nila Fasihi, 17, thinks she might one day open a hair salon in Afghanistan when the war is over.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Alison Chandler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Watkins Mill High School Starts New Summer Reading Program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Every fall, it seems, Watkins Mill High School's English teachers confront the same realization when a new school year begins: Kids just don't like summer reading.
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			<dc:creator>Sebastian Montes</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Newsweek List Includes Five Prince George's High Schools Among Most Challenging ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Newsweek magazine has named five Prince George's County schools to its list of "America's Top Public High Schools."
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			<title><![CDATA[ Elden Street Players' Production of 'The History Boys' Channels Lessons in Storytelling ]]></title>
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School might be out for the summer, but not at Elden Street Players, which has mounted an energetic production of English playwright Alan Bennett's much-honored but thematically muddled "The History Boys."
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			<dc:creator>Michael J. Toscano</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Despite Serious Learning Disabilities, Great Falls Teen Fulfills College Dream ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Josh Thaller shared the aspiration of many of his classmates at Langley High School: to go to a good college.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Alison Chandler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Extra Credit: Why Does the Mountain Have to Come to Middle School? ]]></title>
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Dear Extra Credit: I am a former Montgomery County public schools employee, a parent of two in the system and a lifelong educator. An accelerated math program is presenting a unique challenge for the whole system.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Region's Economic Performance Ranks High, but Housing Sector Remains a Drag ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Washington area ranks among the strongest regions in the nation with its rising wages and gross metropolitan product, along with relatively low unemployment. But a study to be released today suggests that economic recovery here could be slowed by the dramatic drop in housing values and a high...
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			<dc:creator>V. Dion Haynes</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Two Years of Hard Lessons for D.C. Schools' Change Agent ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The image of Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee on newsstands nationwide was causing an uproar among teachers, parents and other constituents. So D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray had to ask her, as she sat in his cavernous, wood-paneled office in December: "Michelle, why would you agree to ...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Administration to Spend Millions to Make Student Testing Uniform Across U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 14 -- The federal government will spend up to $350 million to help states developing national standards for reading and math, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Sunday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Jay Mathews: A Look Back at This Column's First School Year ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Summer arrives in a few days, so this will be the last Schools & Learning page until August. I am not happy about that. It's shameful to admit, but this column is both my occupation and my favorite recreation. I will be looking for ways to sneak in a few pieces over the summer, maybe when my editor...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Va. Expands Costly 'Portfolio' Tests to More Categories of Challenged Students ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For eight days this spring, the Dulles Expo Center was transformed into an industrial grading complex. Boxes of tests were trucked in from schools, unloaded onto pallets into a warehouse and distributed to folding tables, where more than 1,500 Fairfax County teachers and staff worked with sharpened...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Is AP for All a Formula for Failure? ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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I spend much time with aggressive Advanced Placement teachers. They tell me, quite often, that students must be stretched beyond their assumed capabilities. Whenever I try to pass on this advice, however, I become a target for ridicule and disbelief from readers.
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			<dc:creator>Jay Mathews</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Advocates Seek Universal Pre-K, but Cost-Conscious States Set Limits ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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School may never be quite as enchanting as it is in pre-kindergarten.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Woodbridge Mother Becomes Advocate for Those With Mental Health Disorders ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Diana Malcolm can tick off the seemingly infinite number of brain disorders that have afflicted her 13-year-old son, Joshua, as if they were courses in graduate school: attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Asperger syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome and adopted...
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			<dc:creator>Ian Shapira</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. Polls Saw High Turnout as Inspired Iranians Vote for Their Country's LeaderInspired or ÂFed Up,' Iranians Turnout at D.C. Polls to Vote for a Leader ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Thirty years after the revolution that sent many of their families fleeing to a new life in the West, local Iranians streamed to Wisconsin Avenue yesterday, hoping to make a difference in a hotly contested election half a world away.
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			<dc:creator>Tara Bahrampour</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ University of Virginia President John Casteen Says He Will Step Down Next Year ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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John T. Casteen III, who has led the University of Virginia to a greatly enhanced reputation as one of the most academically elite colleges in the country, announced yesterday that he would step down next year after 20 years as president.
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			<dc:creator>Susan Kinzie</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prince George's Offers Night Recreation Programs to Help Youths Navigate Summer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Twenty-three years ago, G. Van Standifer, then the town manager in Glenarden, noticed that crime was up in his small community and most of it was being committed by young men between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.
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			<dc:creator>Ovetta Wiggins</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fairfax County, Va., School Board Could Have 2 Vacancies to Fill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Fairfax County School Board is gearing up for a midterm shuffle, with one member stepping down because of a federal appointment and another seeking a seat in the Virginia General Assembly.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Alison Chandler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Deeds's Va. Victory Renews McDonnell Rivalry Â With a Difference ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Days before Christmas 2005, Democrat R. Creigh Deeds was declared the loser in the race for state attorney general. To his supporters, the outcome of the closest statewide contest in modern Virginia history was only a temporary setback.
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			<dc:creator>Maria Glod</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Warren Board Considers Whether to Put History Lesson Into New School's Name ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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FRONT ROYAL, Va. -- Fifty years ago, 20 black students walked past a crowd of angry hecklers into Warren County High School and integrated it.
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			<dc:creator>Tara Bahrampour</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Extra Credit: What Sort of Family Wants Stories Like This? ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Dear Extra Credit: I am a soon-to-be stepmother to a lovely 12-year-old girl. She recently brought home a bright pink book with yellow smiley faces on the cover titled "TTYL" (Talk To You Later, in text/Internet-speak). The author is Lauren Myracle. I thought to myself, "How cute; how perfect for a...
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C.'s Trinidad Neighborhood Seethes After Police Shooting ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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About 100 people flocked to a church in Northeast Washington last night to ask why U.S. Park Police had fatally shot a 25-year-old man in the Trinidad neighborhood. But many in the crowd seemed to leave with even more questions and a greater sense of frustration.
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			<dc:creator>Clarence Williams and Theola Labbé-DeBose</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thomas Jefferson High School Installs Solar Panels ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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With a hot sun beating down onto Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology yesterday, the brand-new solar panels perched on its roof had already cranked out $7.60 worth of power.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Slanderous Web Site Catering to Teens Is Shut Down ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A Web site that catered to anonymous slander and insults by and about teenagers -- and was especially popular in Montgomery County high schools -- was closed down yesterday by its Web hosting company.
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			<dc:creator>Donna St. George and Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Piney Branch Elementary Students Campaign for Reusable Lunchroom Trays, Utensils ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Casting about for a cause, the Young Activist Club at Piney Branch Elementary settled on something close at hand: the hundreds of polystyrene trays and plastic utensils discarded daily in the school cafeteria.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Stadium Fireworks Display Draws D.C. Fire Chief's Attention ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Fireworks go off at Nationals Park at the drop of a bat: for the national anthem, a home run, after a win and every Friday. The display is meant to add some cheer and bursts of color to the game.
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			<dc:creator>Theola Labbé-DeBose</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fredericksburg Struggles to Solve Its Unemployment Problem ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As the recession closed in, economic development leaders in the job-starved city of Fredericksburg thought they had the perfect plan to solve their unemployment problem, which was threatening to become the worst in the region.
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			<dc:creator>V. Dion Haynes</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Autism Services Fall Short in Virginia, Study Says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Public services for Virginians with autism suffer from poor organization and limited resources and fail to offer help early enough. Many school systems also are unable to meet the needs of their autistic students, according to a report released yesterday by the General Assembly's lead audit review...
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			<dc:creator>Chris L. Jenkins</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 46 States and D.C. to Pursue Common Education Standards ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of success in American schools.
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			<dc:creator>Maria Glod</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Report Shows Record Public School Enrollment, More-Diverse Class ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Public school enrollment across the country is hitting a record this year with just less than 50 million students, and classrooms are becoming more diverse, largely because of growth in the Latino population, according to a new federal report.
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			<dc:creator>Maria Glod</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery County Student Leader Proposes Allowing Cellphone Use at Lunchtime ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Juan Hendrix, an earth science teacher at John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, knows that when it comes to cellphone use in schools, looks can deceive.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ With Little Cash, More Graduation Parties Are Less Splash ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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With the economy still slumping and college tuition rates rising, many families in the Washington area are looking to save by cutting back on a rite of passage cherished by generations of high school seniors: the grad party.
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			<dc:creator>Jenna Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bicyclists, Pedestrians Try Out Dedicated Lane on Wilson Bridge ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Shortly after noon yesterday, about 100 cyclists pedaled through the streets of Old Town Alexandria to do something they had never been able to do before: Bike the 1.1-mile span of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge into Maryland.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Great Mills Academy Students Get a Taste of College Life ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Music was playing in one dorm room as a couple of girls ran down the corridor squealing, interrupting a conversation between two hallmates. It was a typical dorm scene, but with a twist.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Potomac Educator Named Virginia's Middle School Principal of the Year ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Potomac Middle School Principal Benita Stephens knows her school's place in the community. With a high-poverty student body in an economic recession, the school is a hub for social services, not just education.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Leaders Celebrate Kickoff of Expansion at Maryland Airport in Charles County ]]></title>
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Federal, state and Charles County leaders broke ground Friday on a $30 million expansion of the privately owned Maryland Airport near Pomonkey, which is expected to boost defense-related business in the area.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cider Mill Road in Western Loudoun County Receives Designation as a Scenic Byway ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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After two years of efforts by residents, Virginia is adding a two-mile stretch of Cider Mill Road in western Loudoun County to the 3,251 miles the state has designated as scenic byways.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U-Va., GWU Teams Pitch Ad Campaigns Against Binge Drinking ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When a University of Virginia class got the assignment -- create an ad campaign to keep students from drinking too much -- students knew two things right away.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Region Singing in the Rain, But About Drier Days Ahead ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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On the weather radar, the storm that drenched the Washington area yesterday blotted the map like a gloomy green cloud, sluggishly creeping northeast as soggy area residents eagerly embraced the promise of a drier weekend.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez and Mark Berman</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book Review: 'Lost in the Meritocracy' by Walter Kirn ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In his hilarious memoir, "Lost in the Meritocracy," Walter Kirn recounts the many ways that the American educational rat race betrayed him.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Va. Democratic Hopefuls Propose Help for Students Shut Out of State's Colleges ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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RICHMOND -- One in a series of articles about issues being discussed by the Democratic candidates for governor of Virginia, who will stand for the primary Tuesday.
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			<dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Region's Unemployment Rate Falls ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Despite a drop in metropolitan Washington's jobless rate, regional economists told business leaders yesterday that they expect unemployment to worsen next year before subsiding in 2011 with the creation of tens of thousands of new jobs.
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			<dc:creator>V. Dion Haynes</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Program Helps Military Veterans Become Schoolteachers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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John J. Paulson commanded the submarine USS Philadelphia as it glided through the Atlantic Ocean at the height of the Cold War. He has been shot at by pirates. And he was part of a military team that in the 1990s forecast the devastation a nuclear bomb would cause in various scenarios.
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			<dc:creator>Maria Glod</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bogus Claim in Va. About Jails, Schools Shows How Easily Fact, Fancy Can Blur ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Empty desks line the dimly lit elementary classroom. A map of the United States hangs on the wall. As quiet music plays, the camera pulls back and prison bars close over the sobering scene.
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			<dc:creator>Maria Glod and Rosalind S. Helderman</dc:creator>
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