<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Around the Nation</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/national?nav=rss_education/national</link><description>Around the Nation</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers, Scientists Vow to Fight Challenge to Evolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38465-2005May5.html?nav=rss_education/national</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38465-2005May5.html?nav=rss_education/national</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:07:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TOPEKA, Kan., May 4  --  Alarmed by proposals to change how evolution is taught, scientists and teachers are mobilizing to fight back, asserting that educational standards are being threatened by what they consider a stealth campaign to return creationism to public schools.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers Give New SAT Essay Low Marks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35355-2005May4.html?nav=rss_education/national</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35355-2005May4.html?nav=rss_education/national</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:07:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A professional organization representing 60,000 teachers of English criticized the new essay portion of the SAT as a poor predictor of how well students will perform in college and expressed concern that it could encourage mediocre, formulaic writing.]]></description><author> Michael Dobbs</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Air Force to Probe Religious Climate at Colorado Academy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35370-2005May4.html?nav=rss_education/national</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35370-2005May4.html?nav=rss_education/national</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:07:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Air Force said yesterday it is creating a task force to address the religious climate at the U.S. Air Force Academy, following allegations that its faculty and staff have pressured cadets to convert to evangelical Christianity.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[COAST TO COAST]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28686-2005May1.html?nav=rss_education/national</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28686-2005May1.html?nav=rss_education/national</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:07:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Duck-and-Cover Drills Get An Update for New Risks <br> People of a certain age may remember the drill  --  crouching awkwardly under school desks in preparation for a nuclear war.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latin: A Language Alive and Well]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16275-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_education/national</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16275-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_education/national</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:07:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Latin is considered by many to be a dead language, but not by Marie Davis.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enrollment in ROTC Down 16 Percent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12418-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/national</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12418-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/national</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:07:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nationwide enrollment has slipped over the past two years, leaving the program, which commissions more than six of every 10 new Army officers each year, with its fewest participants in nearly a decade.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters Target Minority Students]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10336-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_education/national</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10336-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_education/national</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:07:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DEERFIELD, Ill., April 22  --  Authorities at a Christian university near Chicago moved dozens of black and Hispanic students to a hotel for their safety, and police stepped up patrols on campus Friday after three people received threatening, racist letters.]]></description><author> Carla K. Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny Corner of La. Mourns 6 Soldiers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64134-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_education/national</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64134-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_education/national</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:07:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[HOUMA, La., Jan. 10 -- Bradley Bergeron grew up, as they say around here, "way down on the bayou," a sliver of high ground south of town called Upper Little Caillou. Bergeron was no homecoming king, no valedictorian, just a nice kid who blended in with his class. But he was a star on that day last October when the "Black Sheep," this town's National Guard unit, left for Iraq.]]></description><author> Manuel Roig-Franzia</author></item></channel></rss>