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			<title><![CDATA[ Report: Too hard to dismiss bad teachers in D.C., Md. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:59:58 EST</pubDate>
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A new national report card on educational innovation contends that principals in Maryland and the District face too many barriers to ousting bad teachers.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Silver Spring school blends instruction in English, Spanish ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Whether someone speaks English or Spanish to you at Kemp Mill Elementary School can be a matter of walking a few feet in one direction or another.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Evaluations have little role in promoting better teaching ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Those unfortunate people in the District might worry about the quality of their teachers and wait anxiously for the results of the school system's controversial new evaluation of classroom techniques and test score improvement. But those of us in the Washington area suburbs don't have to worry...
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			<dc:creator>Jay Mathews</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ With Fort Hood, Virginia Tech confronts link to another tragedy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- As Americans scrambled to make sense of the life of Army psychiatrist Nidal M. Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 people and injured 38 more at Fort Hood, Tex., last week, one fact stood out for those living here: Hasan graduated from Virginia Tech in 1995.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Virginia poses challenges for charter school advocates ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Tuesday's elections in Virginia swept a staunch supporter of charter schools into the governor's mansion, raising hopes for advocates in a state that has been skeptical of the publicly funded, privately run alternatives to regular public schools.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Piedmont Stories: For the new schoolteacher, work and love ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In late October, my history class for Loudoun County public school teachers was mesmerized listening to Anne Frazer speak of 1937, her initial year in Loudoun County. As an 18-year-old from Pembroke, Giles County, she taught first grade at Hamilton Elementary School and took full advantage in off...
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			<dc:creator>Eugene Scheel</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Austrians discuss Holocaust at Md. Jewish day school ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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To the history teacher at one of the country's biggest Jewish schools, it was a chance to show her students that Europe didn't freeze in place at the end of World War II. To the Austrian officials, it was an opportunity to talk about how their country deals with its past with a curious group of...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Suspect in Fort Hood shootings attended Silver Spring mosque ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring was empty Thursday night, but inside, the phone didn't stop ringing. Members of the mosque where Maj. Nidal M. Hasan had been a regular attendee and members of the media wanted to know about the place where the suspect in the shootings at Fort Hood, Te...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Comedian urges Hispanic students to stay in school ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Los Angeles comedian Ernie G has a message for first-generation college-bound students in Washington.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Search continues for Virginia Tech student last seen Oct. 17 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Daniel Harrington's sock drawer is filled with cards his daughter, Morgan, has written over the years. Birthday, Valentine's Day, Christmas.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Mental health hearing for mother who left girl in Va. creek ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A Prince William County judge ordered a mental health evaluation Thursday for a woman who left her adopted 13-year-old daughter for dead in a frigid creek, prosecutors said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U-Md. students protest firing of diversity officer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Several hundred students marched Thursday to the administration building at the University of Maryland to protest the firing of a popular diversity officer in one of the largest demonstrations at the College Park campus since the Vietnam War era.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery County might sue Md. over school funding law ]]></title>
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Top Montgomery County officials threatened Thursday to sue the state and "aggressively pursue" legislation that would change state law after Maryland's attorney general found that the county had failed to meet the state's minimum level of funding for education. The opinion renders it potentially...
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			<title><![CDATA[ NFL player from Sierra Leone gives $2 million to U-Md. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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At 9, Madieu Williams immigrated to Prince George's County from Sierra Leone, one of the poorest nations on Earth. The move gave his family a sense of perspective. His mother told him over and over that if he ever found himself in a position to make a difference, he should do it.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery school budget action could cost millions in fines ]]></title>
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The Montgomery County school system could be forced to pay millions of dollars in penalties under an opinion Wednesday by Maryland's attorney general that its county government had "artificially" satisfied a state law that sets a minimum funding level for education.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama marks election anniversary by talking education at Wisconsin school ]]></title>
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MADISON, WIS. -- President Obama marked the anniversary of his election Wednesday by speaking in unusually personal terms with schoolchildren and educators in a politically friendly state, far from the partisan fray in Washington.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Foundation giving is expectedto drop more than 10% in '09 ]]></title>
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Foundation giving is expected to drop more than 10 percent this year from 2008 and to continue falling next year, according to a survey conducted in September of almost 600 large- and mid-size organizations by the Foundation Center.
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			<dc:creator>Susan Kinzie</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ex-D.C. teachers union chief no longer in federal custody ]]></title>
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Former Washington Teachers' Union president Barbara Bullock, sentenced to prison in 2004 for masterminding the theft of nearly $5 million from D.C. educators, was released from federal custody Wednesday.
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			<dc:creator>Bill Turque</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U-Md. to create center to focus on public health initiatives ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:34:58 EST</pubDate>
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The University of Maryland on Wednesday plans to announce the creation of a center to focus on public health initiatives in the disparate locales of Prince George's County and the African nation of Sierra Leone, two places close to the heart of the alumnus who is donating some of the funds.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Md., Va. dip toes in charter school waters, as D.C. student numbers soar ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The number of charter schools in the District has skyrocketed over the past decade, and charters are on track to claim 38 percent of public school students in the city. The charter scene is a comparative desert in Virginia and Maryland, but that might be changing.
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			<title><![CDATA[ College students shunning swine flu vaccine, poll shows ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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One night inside a George Washington University fraternity, a sky-diving, weight-lifting, energy-drink-swilling group of brothers gathered around a pool table, boasting about how no matter what their college, government and parents might say, they don't need any swine flu vaccine, thanks very much.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Class Struggle: In math, the readiness is all ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Sputnik got me into algebra early, almost. The Soviet satellite frightened the U.S. government into approving lots of money to accelerate math instruction just as I was completing eighth grade in San Mateo, Calif., in 1959. Hillsdale High, where I was to attend ninth grade, got some of these funds...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to spotlight education reform efforts ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:37:59 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama on Wednesday will highlight education reform efforts in 10 states where governors and lawmakers are maneuvering for a piece of the $4.35 billion to be awarded in the "Race to the Top" competition that will begin in the next several weeks.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Black &amp; Decker to merge with Stanley ]]></title>
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Black & Decker, struggling amid a sales slump resulting from a dramatic slowdown in construction, said Monday it would merge with rival Stanley Works in a $4.5 billion deal joining two of America's best-known tool manufacturers.
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. area families board students at local private schools ]]></title>
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For Sean Woo, boarding his sons at St. Albans School was an easy choice. His two teenagers got the prestige, the rigorous academics and an around-the-clock minder all in one package. And with St. Albans just a half-hour drive from Woo's McLean home, he could still make all the choral concerts and...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Report says aid kept, added 7,000 D.C. area education jobs ]]></title>
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Federal economic recovery aid for education has created or saved more than 7,000 jobs in the District, Maryland and Virginia, according to a report by the government board assigned to keep track of stimulus spending, part of about 400,000 jobs preserved nationwide.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Vigil counters 2nd anti-gay attack on a Georgetown student ]]></title>
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For the second time in a week, a Georgetown University student has reported being attacked and called an anti-gay slur while walking near campus, prompting yet another student gathering Monday evening to show support for the victims.
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Answer Sheet: The feuding is getting in the way ]]></title>
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I just might scream if I hear one more person invoke what is "best for the kids" in the growing conflict between D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and her critics.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ex-president of GWU leads in survey of pay in 2007-08 ]]></title>
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Former George Washington University president Stephen J. Trachtenberg received $3.7 million in pay and benefits in 2007-08, $2 million more than the total compensation that year for any other current or former leader in private higher education in the United States, according to a survey of execu...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Parents can plumb the Web for data on private schools ]]></title>
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Private schools have a reputation for being, well, private. Private about their size, private about their students, private about rates of college-bound students.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Evaluating D.C. teachers a confusing job ]]></title>
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In the last half of the 19th century, many inventors pursued the dream of building an airplane. Duds and crashes were frequent and skeptics numerous. Only a decade before the Wright brothers' 1903 flight, British physicist and engineer Lord Kelvin had declared that "heavier-than-air flying machines...
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. has long history of troubled education reform ]]></title>
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When Kathy Patterson learned about Thursday's D.C. Council hearing, during which Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee pelted each other with accusations of law-breaking and secret meetings, she had one immediate reaction.
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When Kathy Patterson learned about Thursday's D.C. Council hearing , during which Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee pelted each other with accusations of law-breaking and secret meetings, she had one immediate reaction.
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For the University of the District of Columbia, the witching hour approaches: The terms of four trustees expire at midnight Saturday, and there is no one to take their place.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pr. William woman who left daughter in creek could serve time in mental hospital ]]></title>
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A Prince William County woman who left her adopted 13-year-old daughter for dead in a frigid creek might suffer from mental illness that would require her to begin serving her sentence in a hospital instead of prison, her defense attorney said Friday.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For bouncers at college bars, Halloween costumes can be tricky ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:35:59 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Georgetown University rally denounces anti-gay violence ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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About 50 Georgetown University students rallied on campus at noon Friday to show solidarity with a student who was allegedly attacked this week because of her perceived sexual orientation.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Md. scientist said he gave Israelis secrets, prosecutors say ]]></title>
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A Chevy Chase scientist accused of attempted espionage told an undercover FBI agent that he gave classified information to an aerospace company owned by the Israeli government, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Scientist gave Israelis secrets, court told ]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Opposition to Montgomery, Md., School Closing ]]></title>
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More than 100 northwestern Montgomery County residents began mobilizing Wednesday night to oppose the proposed closure of Monocacy Elementary School, arguing that the move would hurt their community and possibly backfire on the school system.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C., U.K. corporate law firms discuss possible merger ]]></title>
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Officials at the Washington-based Hogan & Hartson law firm and London-based Lovells said Thursday that they are discussing a possible merger, a move that would make the combined entity one of the largest law firms in the world, with 2,500 lawyers and 40 offices.
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			<title><![CDATA[ United Way error leaves 3 nonprofits off CFC list ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:28:58 EDT</pubDate>
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Three local nonprofit organizations were left off the list of the federal government's workplace charity campaign this year because of an error by the United Way of the National Capital Area.
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			<title><![CDATA[ H1N1, other illnesses jack up D.C. area school absences ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Waves of swine flu and flulike illnesses are surging through Washington area schools, doubling the normal absence rate in several school systems and leaving some campuses with as many as one-fifth of students out sick.
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			<title><![CDATA[ At hearing, tensions grow between Rhee, council over cuts ]]></title>
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D.C. Council members angrily accused Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee on Thursday of skirting the law by deciding unilaterally to lay off teachers and staff -- instead of trimming summer school operations -- to save $9 million in the school system's budget.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:57:43 EDT</pubDate>
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Union members, parents and community activists packed the D.C Council chambers Thursday morning for Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's first detailed account of the teacher layoffs and budget cuts that have placed her under the heaviest political fire of her 28-month tenure.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery County residents fight school's closure ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:18:01 EDT</pubDate>
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More than 100 northwestern Montgomery County residents began mobilizing Wednesday night to oppose the proposed closure of Monocacy Elementary School, arguing that the move would hurt their community and possibly backfire against the school system.
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. schools strive to show enrollment growth in audit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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On Wednesday morning, the students at Brent Elementary School on Capitol Hill gave class presentations about their firefighter, shark and princess costumes. In the afternoon, they paraded to a neighboring park to the applause of their parents.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery to launch campaign on parking lot safety ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Until 12 years ago, Potomac resident Robert Weinstock had never considered walking across a parking lot a particularly dangerous thing to do.
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			<dc:creator>Megan Greenwell</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ County schools flock to Facebook, Twitter, blogs to keep community informed ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When Landon School officials noticed that young alumni weren't visiting the school's Web site, they decided to go where the students were: Facebook.
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			<dc:creator>Bradford Pearson</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery official offers plan to build, expand schools ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Montgomery County would build two new schools and expand nine others in an effort to address overcrowded buildings under a $1.49 billion, six-year plan issued Wednesday by Superintendent Jerry D. Weast.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Purcellville trail is named for a teacher and a developer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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John Chapman is a Loudoun County developer who has made a lot of money building on land that Loudoun Valley High School teacher John DeMary has spent 37 years teaching his students to nurture.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Siblings return to hospital where they were born ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Years before "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and the "Octomom," Robin Smith quietly gave birth to quintuplets at Howard University Hospital.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Siblings return to hospital where they were born ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:29 EDT</pubDate>
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Years before "Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8" and the "Octomom," Robin Smith quietly gave birth to quintuplets at Howard University Hospital.
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			<dc:creator>Megan Greenwell</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ NTSB says pilot error probably caused fatal Md. medevac crash ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A Maryland State Police helicopter pilot made a questionable decision to fly on a foggy night last year. Air traffic controllers were inattentive, unhelpful and sloppy. Troopers tracking the medical rescue flight were complacent and slow to recognize that the helicopter was lost and ran a...
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			<dc:creator>Jenna Johnson and Mary Pat Flaherty</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ States not protecting student privacy, study finds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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States often collect far more information about students than necessary and fail to take adequate steps to protect their privacy, a national study concludes. The dossiers go far beyond test scores, including Social Security numbers, poverty data, health information and disciplinary incidents.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Washington might look to Baltimore for innovative ideas in special education ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When I first returned to the Washington area in 1997 after two decades working elsewhere for the Post, I assumed that readers of my education stories would be most interested in standard suburban topics, such as college admissions, test scores and gifted education. Those issues had their place, but...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prince William students to appealpenalty for racist symbols ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Four of six Stonewall Jackson High School students accused of arranging pieces of sod into racist symbols will appeal the Prince William County school district's recommended punishment at a disciplinary hearing Wednesday night, said Rae Roach, mother of two of the students.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bank of America to give $20M in grants to nonprofits ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:06:02 EDT</pubDate>
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Bank of America will announce $20 million in grants to nonprofits across the country Wednesday, including $400,000 to two organizations in the Washington area.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Anonymous donor gives $2.5 million to Catholic University ]]></title>
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A $2.5 million gift to Catholic University will endow a chair at the School of Philosophy, the Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, the school president, announced recently. The donor asked to remain anonymous.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rhee has asked how to regain teachers' trust, principals say ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, facing a showdown Thursday with the D.C. Council over layoffs and budget cuts, has asked principals what she can do to "regain the trust" of the school system's teachers, some principals say.
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			<title><![CDATA[ High school drama students save 'Chicago' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Churchill High School in Potomac is well known for its theater program, but the drama was offstage Monday and Tuesday as students battled successfully to save a production of the musical "Chicago."
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ JMU students charged for reporting news ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:06:58 EDT</pubDate>
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Two university students are facing trespassing and disorderly conduct charges after they entered a campus dormitory to interview students for a news article.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Montgomery, Md., schools back higher dropout age ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Members of the Montgomery County Board of Education voted Monday night to push for an increase in the compulsory age of attendance in Maryland schools. Board members said such a change in state law would reduce the number of students who don't graduate from high school.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bill and Melinda Gates to Lobby for Global Health Funds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Bill and Melinda Gates will make an unusual personal appeal to Washington officials Tuesday night, asking them to continue funding global health initiatives despite the recession and to commit to nearly halve the number of child deaths worldwide by 2025.
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			<dc:creator>Susan Kinzie</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ NRC to build Bethesda office tower ]]></title>
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has signed a deal to construct a 14-story, 362,000-square-foot office tower across from its headquarters in Bethesda, a welcome project for local developers who have been grappling with plunging demand for commercial real estate space.
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			<dc:creator>V. Dion Haynes</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton discourages anti-defamation laws to protect religion ]]></title>
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized on Monday an attempt by Islamic countries to prohibit defamation of religions, saying such policies would restrict free speech.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Woman found dead in Reston apartment ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:52:56 EDT</pubDate>
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Police checking on the welfare of a Reston man Saturday found a woman with whom he had had a relationship dead in his apartment, Fairfax County police said Monday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Man with Halloween mask robs Loudoun bank ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:10:59 EDT</pubDate>
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An armed robber wearing a Halloween mask robbed a Loudoun County bank Monday morning, making off with an undisclosed amount of cash, authorities said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Federal programs give disadvantaged extra help in college ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Khawar Malik had written just one 10-page paper in four years at DuVal High School in Lanham, and his teacher had given him an entire year to finish it.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Progressive educator, author Theodore R. Sizer dies at 77 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Theodore R. Sizer, 77, a leading progressive educator who promoted the creation of "essential schools" to improve public education one school at a time and who thought that teachers function best as mentors or coaches to their students, died Oct. 21 at his home in Harvard, Mass. He had colon cancer.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Jay Mathews: Major changes at 2 troubled D.C. high schools ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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After days of frantic blogging on the latest D.C. schools crisis and trading speculation with interested readers, I find it refreshing to visit three educators who are making major changes in two of the city's lowest-performing high schools. Unlike me and many of the people I exchange comments with,...
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			<dc:creator>Jay Mathews</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U-Va., U-Md. Astronomers Find Saturn Ring ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Three astronomers from the Washington region, following in the footsteps of no less illustrious a predecessor than Galileo, have discovered a new ring around the planet Saturn.
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			<dc:creator>Martin Weil</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Man is shot and killed by D.C. police officer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A man who wielded a handgun while struggling with a D.C. police officer was fatally shot by the officer Saturday in Northwest Washington, police said.
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			<dc:creator>Emma Brown and Clarence Williams</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. police academy cadets honor officer slain in 1920 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Amidst moss-covered gravestones and towering monuments of angels and obelisks dedicated to lives lost more than a century ago, there's a small clearing at the Glenwood Cemetery in Northeast Washington with a partially buried stone that reads, "Gist."
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			<dc:creator>Jenna Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Man is shot and killed by D.C. police officer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A man who wielded a handgun while struggling with a D.C. police officer was shot and killed by the officer Saturday in Northwest Washington, police said.
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			<dc:creator>emma brown and clarence williams</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Md. commission blocks online degree program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In an unusual ruling last week, a Maryland commission barred a state university from offering an online degree program because it would compete with an existing classroom-based offering from a historically black institution.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cameras will continue to guard Fairfax cafeteria food ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Surveillance cameras installed to keep hungry high school students from stealing sandwiches and snacks will keep rolling for at least one more year, the Fairfax School Board voted Thursday night.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Alison Chandler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ William and Mary students elect transgender homecoming queen ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:28:58 EDT</pubDate>
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Students at the College of William and Mary have elected a transgender homecoming queen.
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			<title><![CDATA[ 2 Montgomery elementary schools to be merged ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A small elementary school could become the first in Montgomery County to close in more than two decades, under a plan proposed Friday by Superintendent Jerry D. Weast.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Leader in education reform dies of colon cancer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:53:56 EDT</pubDate>
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Theodore R. Sizer, 77, a leading progressive educator who promoted the creation of "essential schools" to improve public education one school at a time and who believed teachers functioned best as mentors or coaches to their students, died Oct. 21 at his home in Harvard, Mass. He had colon cancer.
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			<dc:creator>Nick Anderson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prominent Jewish school receives largest gift to date ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:58 EDT</pubDate>
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A Jewish elementary school in the District has been pledged a gift of $5 million in what area private educators are calling a hopeful sign for fundraising.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Proposal would close Montgomery elementary school  ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A small elementary school in rural northwestern Montgomery County would be closed under a plan presented by Superintendent Jerry D. Weast to the Board of Education, school officials said Friday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U-Md. can't offer online program available at Morgan State ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:01:59 EDT</pubDate>
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In an unusual ruling this week, a Maryland commission has barred a state university from offering an online degree program because it would compete with an existing classroom-basedoffering from a historically black institution.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Landon School becomes a crime scene for forensics class ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The body was lying facedown against the wall of Landon School's rifle range, on an otherwise peaceful campus in Bethesda. A red-ringed bullet hole was on the victim's back, and yellow crime-scene tape cordoned off everyone but the investigators.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Report: Cuts to youth sports contribute to obesity, violence ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:13:58 EDT</pubDate>
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A new report says that $2 billion in cuts to school-based sports and physical education programs are contributing to a range of problems afflicting the nation's youth, including obesity, violence and academic failure.
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			<title><![CDATA[ 'Big Brother'  to continue watching Fairfax high school cafeterias ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:47:57 EDT</pubDate>
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Surveillance cameras installed to keep hungry high school students from stealing sandwiches and snacks will keep rolling for at least one more year, the Fairfax School Board voted Thursday night.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U-Va. students are using DNA to try to make a 'new machine' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Creating an original organism required no bolt of lightning for a team of University of Virginia students. But it did take buckets of ice, vials of bacteria and a FedEx delivery.
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			<dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Theodore R. Sizer, 77; educator, author worked to improve public schools ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:14:56 EDT</pubDate>
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Theodore R. Sizer, a leading progressive educator who promoted the creation of "essential schools" to improve public education one school at a time and who believed teachers functioned best as mentors or coaches to their students, has died at age 77.
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. police fatally shoot man they say was armed in NE ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A 19-year-old man was fatally shot by D.C. police Wednesday in the Carver Terrace section of Northeast Washington after he confronted them with a gun, authorities said.
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			<dc:creator>Theola Labbé-DeBose</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Duo release another video of their meeting with ACORN worker ]]></title>
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Two undercover videographers released another videotape Wednesday of their interaction with an ACORN worker, contending that it reveals help they received from the community group's Philadelphia office when they posed as a pimp and a prostitute seeking a home.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Solar energy system planned at Catholic U. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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More than 1,000 solar panels will be installed on four Catholic University buildings this fall, creating the largest solar energy system in the Washington area, officials said Wednesday.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Search continues for Va. Tech student ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:07:59 EDT</pubDate>
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Morgan Harrington telephoned her friends Saturday night from outside John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia to say she had left the Metallica concert, couldn't get back in and would find her own way home. She hasn't been heard from since.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Georgetown student advertises for a personal assistant ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Georgetown University sophomore Charley Cooper is busy. He has a full load of classes, hours of homework and a part-time job at a financial services company. He's also worried about an illness in the family. And then there are all the other time-consuming aspects of college.
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. students say schools' sex education is antiquate ]]></title>
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D.C. public high school students who participated in focus groups on sexual health said they were unimpressed with the District's sex education curriculum, do not trust the school nurses who are charged with counseling them about disease prevention and disdain the brand of condoms distributed by...
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			<title><![CDATA[ For young players, tips from the maestro ]]></title>
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Maestro Lorin Maazel, one of the music world's preeminent conductors, took to the stage at the District's Coolidge Senior High School Saturday afternoon to lead a group of 40 young musicians, all members of the D.C. Youth Orchestra Program, through a rehearsal of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Jay Mathews: What should Fairfax do about Jefferson grades? ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology has the highest SAT scores in the country and probably is the best high school in many other ways. But is it too good for the rules that govern the other high schools in Fairfax County?
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			<dc:creator>Jay Mathews</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. teacher contract talks still stuck ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Recriminations and political fallout from the Oct. 2 teacher layoffs have brought the on again, off again contract talks between the District and the Washington Teachers' Union, which are fast approaching the two-year-mark, to another standstill.
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			<dc:creator>Bill Turque</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Loudoun uses education reserves to help fill shortfall: Move irks School Board, which had been saving money for lean years ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Loudoun County budget officers dipped into public school reserves to help fill a $28 million revenue shortfall this week, surprising the School Board, which was saving money for the lean years expected ahead.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Alison Chandler and Derek Kravitz</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Flood disrupts day at Rockville high school ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:59:52 EDT</pubDate>
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An ill-fated toss of a medicine ball snapped a fire sprinkler head and led to flooding at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville on Tuesday morning, disrupting the school day and possibly causing damage to the school's dance studio.
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Citing gap, O'Malley urges Md. superintendents to cut costs ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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With Maryland facing a $2 billion budget shortfall next year, Gov. Martin O'Malley warned the chiefs of the state's school systems Tuesday of hard times ahead, and the Senate president told them that they were "going to have to start taking a portion of the hit."
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			<dc:creator>Nelson Hernandez and John Wagner</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ College Costs, Student Aid Continue to Rise ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The economic slump has not slowed the upward spiral of college costs, the College Board reported Tuesday. Tuition and fees now average $26,273 at private colleges and $7,020 at public four-year institutions, with prices rising faster in the public sector.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel de Vise and Nick Anderson</dc:creator>
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