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		<title>&#8220;Stand up and fight&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/18/stand-up-and-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristin Rudolph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a liberal atheist, Mike Adams is now a Christian who believes “socialism and communism are for losers.” Adams, who has been a professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington since 1993, spoke to students of The King&#8217;s College in New York City on Sept. 11, 2009, as part of the college&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.Y. Journal: Urban campus challenge</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/14/n-y-journal-urban-campus-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Nyack College in New York City, they were praying for a miracle. In an overflow room, students and other attendees watched on camera the proceedings from two floors below. They raised their hands and said, &#8220;Amen!&#8221; as professors came forward to read Psalms and lead the group in prayer for what they called the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private schools in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/07/private-schools-in-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could improved educational opportunities help to &#8220;defang&#8221; the Taliban in Pakistan? Here is an interesting story that highlights the growing number of private schools in the country:
Pakistan is seeing a surge in private schools, a trend some find hopeful in a country where the government education system is decrepit and the other alternative is religious [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>The future of abstinence (funding)</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/28/the-future-of-abstinence-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With President Obama&#8217;s 2010 budget set to cut all funds for abstinence-only sex-ed programs, Newsweek reports on the varied approaches these programs will take as financial support vanishes.
The Future of Abstinence&#8221; chronicles the history of the abstinence movement since 1996, showing that some programs were entirely &#8220;abstinence-only&#8221; while others changed into a hybrid of abstinence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New report finds success for charter schools</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/06/new-report-finds-success-for-charter-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/06/new-report-finds-success-for-charter-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report&#8211;noteworthy because it meets the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; of educational study&#8211;finds some success for New York City charter schools.
Some 94 percent of New York City&#8217;s charter school students are chosen by lottery,  so it creates a good randomized study: researchers can take a group of students whose parents entered them in the lottery [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Your teenager&#8217;s sexual rights</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/18/your-teenagers-sexual-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Segelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Miriam Grossman is the author of Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student, a book I highly recommend to the parent of any teenager considering college. Grossman originally wrote that book anonymously, but has since become an outspoken opponent of the culture of sexual permissiveness and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meeting our greatest challenges</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/11/meeting-our-greatest-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/11/meeting-our-greatest-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Wishing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was refreshing to hear our president, often accused of being a socialist, speak to students earlier in the week about the truly American virtue of individual responsibility. Although I am not an Obama supporter, I was impressed with the sincere empathy he showed to kids who come from difficult family settings. President Obama knows [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The people who don&#8217;t remember 9/11</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/11/the-people-who-dont-remember-911/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/11/the-people-who-dont-remember-911/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://online.worldmag.com/?p=23062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post&#8217;s Eli Saslow did an excellent piece today on high schoolers who don&#8217;t remember 9/11 and are learning about it through textbooks. Many of the students were in second and third grade when it happened.
One student taking notes in a class about 9/11 wrote,
It was an example of &#8216;terrorism.&#8217;
The reporter follows student JaLeah [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>The self-esteem myth</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/11/the-self-esteem-myth/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/11/the-self-esteem-myth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Segelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theory that promoting self-esteem in children provides wide-ranging benefits has been debunked. Again.
A new book, NurtureShock, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, takes a look at a variety of recent findings about child development. Among them is evidence that teaching self-esteem doesn’t do children any good whatsoever.
Americans seem eager to embrace fads when it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Whom do you trust?</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/10/whom-do-you-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/09/10/whom-do-you-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Dunham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So did everyone survive this week? Obama&#8217;s school speech debate over now? OK, moving on . . . kind of.
One thing that really struck me in this week’s hubbub over the President&#8217;s speech to schoolchildren was how many parents were so volatile about their kids hearing it. It seemed many did not trust their schools [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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