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<item><title><![CDATA[ In Manassas, The 3 R's Add Up to a Fourth: Rudimentary ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082700069.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082700069.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Reading, writing and arithmetic are still the fundamental building blocks of education, but these days, they have some competition as educators reevaluate curriculum and prepare students for life in the 21st century. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Buske]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas,]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[3]]></category><category><![CDATA[R's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Add]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fourth:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudimentary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[FIRST-For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Murnane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Levy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Pope]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Kay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[FIRST Lego League]]></category><category><![CDATA[LEGO Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Micron Technology Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Community College]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Scores Stable as More Minorities Take SAT ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082601468.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082601468.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SAT performance held steady for 2008 high school graduates even as participation rose among minority students and those who are part of the first generation in their families to go to college, the College Board reported yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Glod and Michael Alison Chandler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Scores]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stable]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minorities]]></category><category><![CDATA[Take]]></category><category><![CDATA[SAT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Wills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Wise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaston Caperton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ian Shapira]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nelson Hernandez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theresa Vargas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Deep Breath as Class Starts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082601348.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082601348.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Thomas Anderson stood yesterday at an intersection of freshly polished linoleum hallways at John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, fulfilling one of the simplest of a principal's duties on the first day of school: helping freshmen find their way to class. Room 273? "Around the corner and to the left," he said with the dispatch of a traffic officer. Room 261? "That way." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel de Vise]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deep]]></category><category><![CDATA[Breath]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Class]]></category><category><![CDATA[Starts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Weast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Jennings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jermaine Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Peiffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center on Education Policy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At Forum, College Officials Assess Tough Grading Policy's Effect ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502357.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502357.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Several college officials told Fairfax County parents and students yesterday that easing the school system's grading policy could help students win some scholarships but probably would not improve their chances of admission to nearby competitive colleges.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854137287" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854137287" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Alison Chandler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forum,]]></category><category><![CDATA[College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officials]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grading]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policy's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Flagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Megan McLaughlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shannon Gundy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack D. Dale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Murphy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Naval Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ D.C. Tries Cash as a Motivator In School ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103874.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103874.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced plans yesterday to boost dismal achievement at half the city's middle schools by offering students an unusual incentive: cash. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Dion Haynes and Michael Birnbaum]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tries]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cash]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Motivator]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roland G. Fryer Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Nichols]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hardy Middle School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alfie Kohn]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Cantor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dionne Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Levy]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Inequity Lab]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York State Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ From Obsolete to State of the Art ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082001439.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082001439.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hardy Middle School in Northwest Washington will reopen next week with a much larger library after a two-year renovation project. After being mothballed six years ago, Phelps High School in Northeast will relaunch with an updated focus on the construction trades. And John Philip Sousa Middle School in Southeast will have a brighter building that incorporates its historic role in the civil rights movement. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Dion Haynes]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obsolete]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[State]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Art]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allen Lew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwan Jordon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hardy Middle School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phelps High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin R. Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kwame R. Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Pope]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Bradshaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nationals Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sousa Middle School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Convention Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Break on Cost Of Textbooks Unlikely Before Last Bell, 2010 ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081903230.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081903230.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The rising cost of college textbooks has driven Congress and nearly three dozen states -- including Maryland and Virginia -- to attempt to curtail prices and controversial publishing practices through legislation. But as the fall semester begins, students are unlikely to see much relief. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ylan Q. Mui and Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Break]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Textbooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unlikely]]></category><category><![CDATA[Before]]></category><category><![CDATA[Last]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bell,]]></category><category><![CDATA[2010]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Hildebrand]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annaiis Wilkinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bookholders.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Friedson]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Verde]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Mickey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Fowler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pavel Zemliansky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association of American Publishers]]></category><category><![CDATA[CourseSmart LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Madison University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trinity Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New UDC Chief Seeks Overhaul ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403347.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403347.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The man tapped to be the next president of the University of the District of Columbia yesterday outlined an unprecedented overhaul of the long-troubled institution, calling for turning part of the existing school into a community college, creating an honors four-year program and adding graduate programs that could include a medical school.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854139871" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854139871" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie Strauss]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[UDC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Overhaul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allen Sessoms]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Pollard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Brookings Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University System of Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Photo Illustration Gives a Misleading Picture ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403249.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403249.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It seemed, at first, like the toughest kind of tough love. A PowerPoint presentation from the Montgomery County school system, posted on the Internet, showed 18 teenagers' pictures under the words "These students need our help in passing the Algebra so they can graduate from high school." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jenna Johnson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Photo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illustration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gives]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Misleading]]></category><category><![CDATA[Picture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerard Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint]]></category><category><![CDATA[MySpace Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quince Orchard High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Examiner]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Change Agent' To Lead UDC ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081302902.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081302902.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An Ivy League-educated physicist who has run a historically black state university for the past five years will be the next president of the University of the District of Columbia, a choice that school officials said signals dramatic change at the public institution. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie and Valerie Strauss]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agent']]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category><category><![CDATA[UDC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allen Sessoms]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Dyke]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanley Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carlos Holmes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivy League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shalita Middleton]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Pollard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nikita Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Thinking Behind Critical Thinking Courses ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081901727.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081901727.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Looking for a way to improve your mind and make some money? Check out the latest "critical thinking" courses. Many come up on a Google search. Many promise better grades and higher test scores. Without much effort, you can create your own course and tap into this hot topic. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Behind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Critical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Courses]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel T. Willingham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aspen Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Center on Education and the Economy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Students Like School]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ An Education in the Dangers of Online Research ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901453.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901453.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It hit Mark Gruntz all at once, while he was sitting flat-broke in an airport in Greece: He had lost credit for three summer courses, wasted $11,474 in student loans and gotten kicked off a boat. All because he hadn't cited Wikipedia enough in a paper about a movie.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854141654" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854141654" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[An]]></category><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Online]]></category><category><![CDATA[Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allison Routman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wikimedia Foundation Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Magnone]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Gies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbie Selby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jess Huang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicole Scribner]]></category><category><![CDATA[California Baptist University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio University]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ School Program Puts Focus On Graduation, Not Grades ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080803423.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080803423.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bria Heard, 14, a rising sophomore in Prince William County, had a couple of options after she failed world history last year. She could retake the course over six weeks in summer school or during the next school year and try to improve her grade. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Shapira]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Program]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Graduation,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grades]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laqawnda Fisher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nikki Glover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teresa Zutter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Pyle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[James McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mafara Hobson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Riddile]]></category><category><![CDATA[Renee Lacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ask.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Secondary School Principals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Community College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pearson Education Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.C. Williams High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Education]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ C.D. Hylton High School Principal Is a Finalist for National Honor ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103802.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103802.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Many school principals evoke the idea of treating their students and staff like family, but Carolyn M. Custard, principal of C.D. Hylton High School, clings to that concept with a sense of duty. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Shapira]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[C.D.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hylton]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Principal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finalist]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[National]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carolyn M. Custard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[C.D. Hylton High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fayetteville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rae Darlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forest Park High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Secondary School Principals]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winston-Salem State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Montgomery College Snuffs Out Smoking ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103027.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103027.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ First, smokers had to move outside the building. Then it was 25 feet from the building entrance. Now it has come to this: Starting today, Montgomery College is banning tobacco anywhere on campus -- inside or outside. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Snuffs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smoking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isaac Kim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judy Ackerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Banzhaf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelly Kesler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael J. McFadden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takoma Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Action on Smoking and Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholic University of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hundreds Linked to Diploma Mill ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002300.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002300.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Scores of people in Maryland, Virginia and the District are on a list compiled by federal investigators of more than 9,600 people who might have purchased fraudulent high school diplomas and college degrees, including some who appear to work in government and the military.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854143143" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854143143" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie Strauss]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hundreds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linked]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diploma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barmak Nassirian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Contreras]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brandon A. Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristen Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spokane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Cohen]]></category><category><![CDATA[All Saints American University]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ameritech University]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Monroe High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Monroe University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon Office of Degree Authorization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pan America University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[State Council of Higher Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Missouri System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Regis University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Principal Heads to High School ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073001661.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073001661.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Monica Goldson asked Mark E. King whether he was going to apply to succeed her as principal of Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro, he said, he could not decide immediately. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Zieminski]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Principal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heads]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Madison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Goldson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upper Marlboro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark E. King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lelia Cothen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyattsville Middle School]]></category><category><![CDATA[School Consortium]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At Thomas Jefferson, 2.8 Is Tantamount to Failure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503104.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503104.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Matthew Nuti finished 10th grade at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology with much to be proud of. He excelled in oratory on the Model United Nations team. He was a starting lineman in junior varsity football. His English teacher complimented his classroom wit. Like virtually all students at the very selective public magnet school in Fairfax County, he scored near the top on the Virginia state Standards of Learning exams. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jefferson,]]></category><category><![CDATA[2.8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tantamount]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Failure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carolyn Gecan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liz Nuti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Regnier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evan Glazer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauquier County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matthew Nuti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery Blair]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roanoke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Nuti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urbana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Banneker Academic High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roanoke Valley Governor's School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robinson Secondary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuyvesant High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[University Laboratory High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Shake-Up Follows Probe of Police Chief's Degree Credentials ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303381.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303381.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Some senior officials are leaving their posts at Virginia Commonwealth University following an investigation that found a police chief was improperly allowed to graduate after taking just two classes there. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Shake-Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Follows]]></category><category><![CDATA[Probe]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Degree]]></category><category><![CDATA[Credentials]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rodney Monroe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Commonwealth University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Pratt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Holsworth]]></category><category><![CDATA[College of Humanities and Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[S. Jon Steingass]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Benberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[VCU Rector Thomas Rosenthal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department]]></category><category><![CDATA[L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[VCU Center for Public Policy]]></category><category><![CDATA[VCU's University College]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Young Drivers Getting A Lesson in Economics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001725.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001725.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gas prices are too high for a day trip to Dewey Beach. They are too high for a quick visit to see a friend in College Park. They consume enough of 18-year-old Ashleigh Krudys's paycheck that she second-guesses her social plans.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854144170" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854144170" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Donna St. George]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drivers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Getting]]></category><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lesson]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allison May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashleigh Krudys]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug McKenzie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laurie Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dewey Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aly Massey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aspen Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cate Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germantown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamel Douglas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jessica Fainberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josue Flores]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justin Osorio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kaitlin Coffey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Logan Lawrence]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rachel Ognibene]]></category><category><![CDATA[Riverdale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen S. Fuller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upper Marlboro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University's Center for Regional Analysis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gonzaga High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Madison High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Langley High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[M.M. Washington High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nissan Xterra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Montgomery High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Closed Schools, History Lessons ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071601275.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071601275.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For Nancye Suggs, the call from D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's office about nearly two dozen schools she planned to close was bittersweet: Suggs said that she was heartbroken about the loss, in one fell swoop, of so much history but that she was ecstatic Rhee was offering her a chance to retrieve some of it. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Dion Haynes]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Closed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools,]]></category><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lessons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancye Suggs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard L. Hurlbut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kimberley Springle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marya McQuirter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Becton Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Sumner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denyce Graves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald E. Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marvin Gaye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Wallace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowen Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cardozo High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Sumner School Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Teachers College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal Junior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duke Ellington School of the Arts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Financial Control Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Ballou Senior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Green Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[H.D. Woodson High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeep Grand Cherokee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meyer Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilson High School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A School Where One Size Doesn't Fit All ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071601269.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071601269.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Growing up in Montgomery County, graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and getting a law degree from Harvard, Alan M. Shusterman had been called brilliant but didn't feel that great. He got a job in corporate law with a large Boston firm, but that didn't work for him, either. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Where]]></category><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Size]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doesn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fit]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan M. Shusterman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Dewey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Downes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association of Independent Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandy Spring Friends School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Student Reaches for the Sun and Succeeds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071503282.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071503282.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Even with an overcast sky, the solar panels on the roof of George Mason High School in Falls Church were absorbing enough sun on a recent morning to power the air conditioner in a classroom. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Alison Chandler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Student]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reaches]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sun]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Succeeds]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rachel Gutter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Snee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleveland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lexington (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lois Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rachel Carson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Nissen]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy (New York)]]></category><category><![CDATA[BP plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church City Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hayfield Secondary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Green Building Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Broader Youth Involvement Urged ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802769.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802769.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Erica Williams worries about the wave of political involvement among young people this election season.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854146355" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854146355" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Birnbaum]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Broader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Involvement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urged]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erica Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Largo (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campus Progress National Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At Magnet School, An Asian Plurality ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070602343.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070602343.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Asian American students will outnumber white classmates for the first time in the freshman class at the region's most prestigious public magnet school this fall, a milestone reached as the number of African Americans and Hispanics has remained low and the Fairfax County School Board prepares to review the school's admission policy. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Alison Chandler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnet]]></category><category><![CDATA[School,]]></category><category><![CDATA[An]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plurality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County School Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jenny Tsai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuyvesant High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judith Howard]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seiyoung Jang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seoul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yuqing Zhang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bronx High School of Science]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooklyn Technical High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hunter College High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lowell High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mejung Kim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minority Student Achievement Oversight Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco Unified School District]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Capital Celebration of Freedom ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070401427.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070401427.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Three times in the past four years, the forces of nature have added their own special effects -- rain, wind and sometimes lightning -- to the traditional Fourth of July celebration on the Mall. Last night it happened again, with repeated drenchings that forced people to seek shelter under trees, in museums and even inside trash bags. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Celebration]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suzanne Easter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allison Nguyen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helen Willis]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Spinelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terri Mongelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Hubbard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burlington (North Carolina)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado Springs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Derek Kravitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Hohmann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Lee Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Smits]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kameel Stanley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kunal Amrut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Zapotosky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Birnbaum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Laris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nikita Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olivia Nash]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Rucker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shawn Easter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taylor Hicks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winchester]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chantilly (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shenandoah National Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smithsonian Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gallaudet Regroups ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702314.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702314.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A year and a half after student protesters shut down Gallaudet University for several days and accreditors warned of major problems, the school for the deaf got good news yesterday: Its accreditation will be reaffirmed. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gallaudet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Regroups]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gallaudet University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Davila]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank H. Wu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Fernandes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle States Commission on Higher Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan C. Gibralter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Suskie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frostburg State University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Grants Will Aid Groups Working for Education Reform ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603598.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603598.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A coalition of philanthropic foundations will award $725,000 in grants today to fund five District nonprofit organizations dedicated to the city's public education restructuring.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854148532" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854148532" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Rucker]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Grants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Groups]]></category><category><![CDATA[Working]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reform]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viki Betancourt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community Foundation for the National Capital Region]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Calloway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agnes E. Meyer Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eshauna Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101673.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101673.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The environmental fervor sweeping college campuses has reached beyond the push to recycle plastics and offer organic food and is transforming the curriculum, permeating classrooms, academic majors and expensive new research institutes. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Higher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adapts]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greening]]></category><category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Ott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Knapp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allan Bjerkaas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald J. Boudreaux]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julian Dautremont-Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ligia Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Lindzen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Tjaden]]></category><category><![CDATA[American College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholic University of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frostburg State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goucher College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Princeton Review Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland, Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 6 Montgomery High Schools Ranked Among Top 100 in U.S. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801581.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801581.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Montgomery County high schools turned in their strongest showing yet on the 2008 Challenge Index, the best-known ranking of U.S. high schools. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel de Vise]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[6]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ranked]]></category><category><![CDATA[Among]]></category><category><![CDATA[Top]]></category><category><![CDATA[100]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moreno Carrasco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newsweek Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Weast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walt Whitman]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seneca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cambridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Damascus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Covington McBride]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poolesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kennedy High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Secondary School Principals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ An Elementary History Lesson ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703150.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703150.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Janet Wiggins was a student at Loudoun's all-black Banneker Elementary School in the 1950s, she used hand-me-down textbooks from white students. Her school didn't have a library, so she checked out books every couple of weeks from a bookmobile. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arianne Aryanpur]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[An]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elementary]]></category><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lesson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Banneker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Lloyd]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet Wiggins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vicki Petrosky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun School Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Banneker Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middleburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middletown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglass High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Education Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Closer Look at Graduation Rates ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061003710.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061003710.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Although high schools in the Washington region are showing steady improvement on measures such as Advanced Placement testing and end-of-course exams, that success might not be translating to higher graduation rates, according to the latest data from a Bethesda nonprofit group that is a leading authority on high school completion rates.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854150872" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854150872" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel de Vise]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Closer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Look]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Graduation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Editorial Projects in Education Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Calvert County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Swanson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Mary's County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At Benning Elementary, School's Out Forever ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103625.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103625.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last June 12 was a day of unusual promise at Benning Elementary, a dingy, virtually windowless school near RFK Stadium with a leaky roof, occasional air conditioning and dismal test scores. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elementary,]]></category><category><![CDATA[School's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forever]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darwin Bobbitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benning Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Moeller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[RFK Stadium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daysia Gilliam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tamika Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanessa Gerideau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelly Miller Middle School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Malcolm X Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teach for America]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Charter Schools' Big Experiment ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060802174.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060802174.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects of getting better. Before Hurricane Katrina, educator John Alford said, he toured schools and found "kids just watching movies" in classes where "low expectations were the norm." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Charter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools']]></category><category><![CDATA[Big]]></category><category><![CDATA[Experiment]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Kleban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul G. Vallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leigh Dingerson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeanne Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Alford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Bertsch]]></category><category><![CDATA[KIPP McDonogh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Langston Hughes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Spellings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Community Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[KIPP Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Langston Hughes Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orleans Parish School Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recovery School District]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teach for America]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'The Best and Worst of Both Worlds' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/07/AR2008060701805.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/07/AR2008060701805.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Two final exams down, three to go, and Bucknell sophomore Dan Tichinel put a piece of metal into the strain gauge, the machine that forces pressure to the breaking point. "You tighten this up and tighten this up," he said. "And then you run the tests until failure." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Best]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worst]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Both]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worlds']]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Tichinel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tammy Tichinel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua Wyner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Kent Cooke Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garrett County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelly Salyards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewisburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sydney (Australia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garrett College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivy League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New Talk of D.C. Community College ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060601894.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060601894.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A group of District leaders is calling for the creation of a community college to provide job training for city residents.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854154511" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854154511" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><category><![CDATA[College]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Brookings Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[James W. Dyke Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice M. Rivlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Lang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kwame R. Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia McGuire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilmer Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Regular as Clockwork, Student Made It to Class ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060401278.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060401278.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ He might not have the highest GPA, a perfect SAT score or the throne of homecoming king, but of the hundreds of students graduating in Anne Arundel County this month, Jesse Leszczynski will be the only one walking onto the stage with this statistic: perfect attendance from kindergarten through 12th grade. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Wan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Regular]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clockwork,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Student]]></category><category><![CDATA[Made]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Class]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Leszczynski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cal Ripken Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shepherdstown]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Express Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie Baysox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's Stadium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shepherd University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Md. Keeps a Lid on Tuition ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060401359.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060401359.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At a time when every other state is raising tuition, Maryland froze in-state tuition for the third straight year yesterday for undergraduates entering its public institutions this fall. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie Strauss and John Wagner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Md.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keeps]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lid]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tuition]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Millree Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter McPherson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandy Baum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Skidmore College]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California System]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[University System of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dancing to Dreams At the Cinderella Ball ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102230.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102230.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Stella Jackson had imagined this moment for weeks. Her everyday ponytail had been transformed into a cascade of curls in a two-hour salon visit that morning. Now, she glided across the ballroom, teal gown shimmering. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Glod]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dancing]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cinderella]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helen McCormick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Bittner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Leininger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy Hildebrandt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandra Velesz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cari Cockrell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Cockrell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stella Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victoria Velesz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aaron Cardwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hilary Duff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kyle Maynard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary J. Blige]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Joy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruben Studdard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Van Morrison]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freedom High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[InterContinental Hotels Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Having Too Much Fun' to Retire, 55 Years In ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052303377.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052303377.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Michael Simpson, a military consultant from Coronado, Calif., said it is usually only work that gets him to travel 2,600 miles back to his Northern Virginia childhood home.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854157981" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854157981" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Buske]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Having]]></category><category><![CDATA[Too]]></category><category><![CDATA[Much]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fun']]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Retire,]]></category><category><![CDATA[55]]></category><category><![CDATA[Years]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lillian Orlich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Healey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osbourn High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coronado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amelia Earhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brandon McCoy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cal Ripkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Robinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas S. Waldron]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irene Cromer]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Porter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Point]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Southwest Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Western Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osbourn Park High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Antonio Spurs]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army Reserve]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No Crisis For Boys In Schools, Study Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902798.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902798.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A new study to be released today on gender equity in education concludes that a "boys crisis" in U.S. schools is a myth and that both sexes have stayed the same or improved on standardized tests in the past decade. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie Strauss]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crisis]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boys]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Study]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Association of University Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christianne Corbett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Reville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reville]]></category><category><![CDATA[AAUW Educational Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rennie Center for Education Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At U-Va., a Dean Making a Difference ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/17/AR2008051701294.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/17/AR2008051701294.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ More black students graduate from the University of Virginia within six years than from any other public university in the country, and here's why: institutional commitment, an admissions process that selects strong students, generous financial aid and a network of peer advisers. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[U-Va.,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Difference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sylvia Terry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Bland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Slater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chloe Jordan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Demetra Gibson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Blackburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maurice Apprey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Bland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bahamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coppin State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of African-American Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Berkeley]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanderbilt University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Graduates Prepare to Enter an Uncertain World ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/17/AR2008051702435.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/17/AR2008051702435.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area colleges and universities will release thousands of fresh new graduates this weekend into an uncertain economy that has shaved off just a bit of their usual optimism and energy. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric M. Weiss and Sylvia Moreno]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Graduates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prepare]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enter]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Uncertain]]></category><category><![CDATA[World]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Jeffrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norman Augustine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wendy Kopp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teach for America]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Elhardt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Henry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vicky Sandoval]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Henry College]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bakersfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justin Steeg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kritesh Gautam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhasset]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purcellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Seeds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thousands Oaks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniela Deane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patriot Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Princeton University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trinity Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Graduate Knows All About Carrying a Full Load ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603829.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603829.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BALTIMORE, May 16 -- There is no easy explanation for how Sylvia Spady-Viney managed to get her master's degree Friday from the University of Maryland's school of social work.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854200651" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854200651" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nelson Hernandez]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Graduate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Knows]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carrying]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Full]]></category><category><![CDATA[Load]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sylvia Spady-Viney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roberta L. Ramsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bellingham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Department of Human Resources]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Higher Education Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Western Washington University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Push For School Repairs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051401402.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051401402.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The priority list for renovations of Fairfax County's public schools includes almost 50 schools. West Springfield High is not among them. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Alison Chandler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Push]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Repairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Cecelski]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dean Tistadt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth T. Bradsher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Baldino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat S. Herrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Springfield's PTA]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Colleges Putting Their Own Spin on YouTube ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/11/AR2008051102214.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/11/AR2008051102214.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the first things that pops up if you check YouTube to find out about a public school in Western Maryland is a video that starts: FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY. ITS GREAT!!! An edgy new-wavy punkish Electric Six song cranks in, and the camera lurches as people down shots, chug beer and do keg stands. One guy climbs unsteadily out a window, grins at the camera, then drops through the dark to the ground far below. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Colleges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Putting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Their]]></category><category><![CDATA[Own]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spin]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Carroll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Hostetler]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Hawkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Becca Ramspott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category><category><![CDATA[C.D. Mote Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frostburg State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nora Ganim Barnes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholic University of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Marketing Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[MySpace Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association for College Admission Counseling]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland-Eastern Shore]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Massachusetts Dartmouth]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ George Mason Tuition, Fees to Rise 9.8 Percent ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703513.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703513.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ George Mason University is the latest Virginia school to announce a nearly 10 percent increase in mandatory costs for students, as schools set tuition rates for next year after state budget cuts. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[George]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mason]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tuition,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fees]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rise]]></category><category><![CDATA[9.8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Percent]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zack Golden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Board of Visitors Rector Ernst Volgenau]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ To Save Money, Some Schools In Region Plan Bigger Classes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050603100.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050603100.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Under heavy pressure to contain spending, some Washington area school systems are planning to increase class size in the coming year to save money on teachers.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854202963" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854202963" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Alison Chandler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Save]]></category><category><![CDATA[Money,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bigger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Classes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janice Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas D. Ready]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leonard Bumbaca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County's School Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Education Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clive Belfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[City University of New York System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University Teachers College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax Education Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Annapolis Kindergarten Teacher Wins Agnes Meyer Award ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043001089.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043001089.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In Julie Rice's classrooms, vines hang from the ceiling, monarch butterflies are emerging from their caterpillar stage, Chinese dragon kites dangle overhead and bugs chirp during lessons. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Wan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Annapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kindergarten]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teacher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agnes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Award]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germantown]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lara Bontempo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agnes Meyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charleston (South Carolina)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Princeton (New Jersey)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belize]]></category><category><![CDATA[College of Charleston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germantown Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saint Mary's College]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cotswolds]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Prince George's Replacing Teachers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043002185.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043002185.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Teachers of core subjects who do not meet state qualifications in their chosen fields will be replaced at 21 Prince George's County schools under a set of school improvement plans. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nelson Hernandez]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Prince]]></category><category><![CDATA[George's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Replacing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Deasy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oxon Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Stoddert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Largo High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland State Board of Education]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Time's Up on Multiple-Choice Test for College ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003593.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003593.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Months of honing college essays, meeting application deadlines, filling out financial aid forms, all on top of a full class load that included Advanced Placement English literature, have led James Watkins to this moment. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Theola Labbé]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Time's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Multiple-Choice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Test]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[College]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Watkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clark Atlanta University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gloria Watkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[LD Ross Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia College Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Vermont]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Mungin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewiston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schelly Mitchell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thurgood Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballou Senior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bates College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Best Buy Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. College Success Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phillips Exeter Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thurgood Marshall Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morehouse College]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ County's Top Educator Is Known for Energy, Dedication ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043001715.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043001715.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Biology and chemistry teacher Kelly Horan greets each student to her Reservoir High School classroom with a handshake.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854205713" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854205713" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Otto]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[County's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Top]]></category><category><![CDATA[Educator]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Known]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dedication]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelly Horan]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrianne H. Kaufman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agnes Meyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katherine Kol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paige Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pikesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reservoir High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of North Carolina at Wilmington]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Some War Veterans Find GI Bill Falls Short ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802994.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802994.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Two years after a rocket-propelled grenade hit Nathan Toews during an ambush in southern Afghanistan, sending shrapnel shooting into his skull and spiderwebbing through his brain, he has recovered enough to ask: What now? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kinzie]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veterans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Find]]></category><category><![CDATA[GI]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Short]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nathan Toews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heather Bernard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laurissa Flowers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ray Kelley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Naval Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andre Knight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Calvin Linnette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte Beck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Hilleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Stalcup]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Council on Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[AMVETS National Service Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dickinson College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery College]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Army National Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed Health Care System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Reverend's Words Stir Debate on His Creed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702336.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702336.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bobby Henry was angry when he first saw the now-famous snippets of sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. playing over and over on television. He considered the uproar over Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor an attack on a man of faith and the black church. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Wan and Hamil R. Harris]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Reverend's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Words]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Creed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Henry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[James H. Cone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bernard L. Richardson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kimberly Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bowie (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beltsville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Jackson Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Battle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little Rock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Makita Haynes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Malcolm X]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitchellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Temple Hills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Willie F. Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwestern University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Broadcasting Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union Theological Seminary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Standardized Formula For Graduation Rates May Soon Pair With Tests ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042701667.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042701667.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Bush administration proposal to require that all states use the same formula to calculate high school graduation rates is winning applause from education experts who say it will shed light on the nation's dropout problem. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Glod]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Standardized]]></category><category><![CDATA[Formula]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Graduation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rates]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pair]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Wise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Spellings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daria Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Searching for Science to Guide Good Teaching ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042701866.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042701866.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration's chief of education research says teachers too often rely on "folk wisdom" instead of proven methods to help students learn reading and math. Just as doctors consider data from drug trials and clinical research when they treat patients, he wants educators to think more scientifically in their quest for the right textbooks, technology, teacher training and lesson plans to raise student achievement.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854209931" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854209931" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Glod]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Searching]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Science]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Welner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Spellings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Ratner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute of Education Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Kohlmoos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Goertz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Pianta]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumers Union of U.S. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Interest Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[State University of New York at Stony Brook]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Colorado at Boulder]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia's Curry School]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Schools to Study Grading Practices ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503353.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503353.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fairfax County school officials have agreed to review their grading policies in response to parents' concerns that relatively stringent standards mean their children are losing out on scholarships and college admissions. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Alison Chandler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Study]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grading]]></category><category><![CDATA[Practices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louise Epstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Moniuszko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack D. Dale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcy Newberger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County Association for the Gifted]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ As Congress Tarries, Administration Proposes Changes to 'No Child' Law ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042201822.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042201822.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration proposed major changes yesterday in enforcement of the No Child Left Behind law, including some regulations meant to tighten oversight of public schools, as efforts to revamp the landmark education act have stalled in Congress. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Glod]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tarries,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Proposes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Changes]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA['No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Child']]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Spellings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Wilkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Jennings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Eastern High's PTA Seeks Staff Changes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102749.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102749.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The PTA at Eastern High School has urged D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee to replace many, if not all, of the teachers and other staff at the Capitol Hill school in Northeast Washington. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[V. Dion Haynes]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Eastern]]></category><category><![CDATA[High's]]></category><category><![CDATA[PTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Changes]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Gibson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mafara Hobson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eastern High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Success]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Roy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Byrd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anacostia High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballou Senior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bell Multicultural Senior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute for Student Achievement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Diploma Plan Stirs Concerns In Md. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042002043.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042002043.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Barely a month before some Maryland school districts begin offering students an alternative path to graduation, school officials don't know exactly who will be required to participate and say they worry about the plan's costs and complexity.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854212593" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854212593" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nelson Hernandez]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Diploma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stirs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Concerns]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Md.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Deasy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald A. Peiffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarissa Evans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Weast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adaya Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Arlotto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jody Leleck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass High School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Now It's Colleges' Turn to Say 'Pick Me!' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042002113.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042002113.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The University of Maryland at College Park is making sure that nearly every single student admitted this fall -- more than 10,000 of them -- gets a personal telephone call from a current student extolling the virtues of becoming a Terrapin. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie Strauss]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Now]]></category><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colleges']]></category><category><![CDATA[Turn]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Say]]></category><category><![CDATA['Pick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Me!']]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Christiansen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jessica Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Binghamton University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanderbilt University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marymount University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Flagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheryl Butler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Collegeville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dalai Lama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Kimmer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert McCullough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emory University]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenyon College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tulane University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ursinus College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'The Little School System That Could' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803773.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803773.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Thirteen years ago, test scores were low, classes were in decrepit trailers with sagging floors and leaking roofs, and no one wanted to spend money on the Manassas Park school system. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Buske]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[System]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could']]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Wren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom DeBolt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ritchie Carroll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas Park School Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[City School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cougar Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel L. Duke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eureka College]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Peabody College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henrico County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pulaski County High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Covey]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia's Curry School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanderbilt University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U-Md. Officials Approve Minor in Latino Studies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041801777.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041801777.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Undergraduates at the University of Maryland at College Park can now graduate with a minor in U.S. Latino studies after school officials yesterday approved the first such minor at a major university in the Washington region. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie Strauss]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U-Md.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officials]]></category><category><![CDATA[Approve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minor]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evelyn Lopez]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angel David]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loyola College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwestern High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U-Md. Weighs Creating Latino Studies Minor ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703637.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703637.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maryland's flagship public university has departments in African American Studies and Women's Studies. It has academic programs in Asian American Studies, Jewish Studies and Persian Studies. But there is no U.S. Latino Studies Program there -- or, for that matter, at any university in the mid-Atlantic region.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854214480" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/education;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352854214480" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie Strauss]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U-Md.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weighs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Creating]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minor]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[James F. Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ricardo Ortiz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arelis Hernandez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colleen Esper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evelyn Lopez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victor Nakas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vilma Santiago-Irizarry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholic University of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwestern High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Embracing the Challenge of AP English for All Students ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/13/AR2008041302211.html?nav=rss_education</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/13/AR2008041302211.html?nav=rss_education</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Manuel Ventura, a senior at Bell Multicultural Senior High School in the District, came to the United States from El Salvador only five years ago. He is trying to improve his English, but there are other demands on his time, such as his job cleaning buildings every day from 6 to 10 p.m. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Embracing]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Challenge]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[AP]]></category><category><![CDATA[English]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[Students]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manuel Ventura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Gordon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Posadas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></ca