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		<title>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 01:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well hello there! Yes, it&#8217;s been a very, very long time. So, you&#8217;re asking, why aren&#8217;t you posting anymore?  It&#8217;s hard to say, but I think, in a nutshell, things just got way better and the urge&#8230;the urgency&#8230; just isn&#8217;t there the same way it was. I don&#8217;t know&#8230; I write things in my head.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=5136&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decision Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 20:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 10th was D-Day in boarding school world. The day that acceptance, denial and waitlist letters went out.  We did our best not to think too much about it, but it was always there, in the background. Two weeks earlier I got a call at work, from C.&#8217;s school.  As a courtesy they wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=5116&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buh-Bye Jerry Weast, Hello Joshua Starr</title>
		<link>http://themorechild.com/2011/04/25/buh-bye-jerry-hello-josh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can probably guess, I have absolutely zero sadness at the departure of Jerry Weast. Words cannot adequately capture the smarmy arrogance of the man.  I had one final chance to catch him in action at the March 28 Board of Education meeting.  An overflow crowd of parents representing  various interests  &#8212; including GTA&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=5055&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Under a Bushel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Montgomery Blair High School!  Blair was honored on February 16 with the Maryland Excellence in Gifted and Talented Education (EGATE) award. It is one of just five schools statewide—and the only high school—to receive the prestigious award, which recognizes outstanding gifted and talented education.  MCPS actually issued a press release!  For those readers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=5049&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update Part Two</title>
		<link>http://themorechild.com/2011/02/26/update-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now the Update Part Two. M. you’ll recall is homeschooling and back in September I posted a line up of what we were planning.  Like all good homeschoolers, we did some adjusting along the way. The critical thinking class?  Gone.  It just did not appeal.  Aleks.com?  As much as I am a huge fan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=5042&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<link>http://themorechild.com/2011/02/10/update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pull up a chair, time for an update! So when last we we had an up close and personal, C. was off to boarding school in New England.  So how has that gone? (Today we&#8217;ll do C.  M. will be the next post.) All told, great!  Academically, there were a few kinks to work out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=5032&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Ken Robinson on Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://themorechild.com/2011/01/29/sir-ken-robinson-on-homeschooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Readers! Thank you for the recent kind comments. So where have I been? Well, here. Between work whose demands are picking up (but not salary&#8211;everyone took a 10% pay cut in early December ), homeschooling and momming, and shepherding M. through the application process this fall to 5 boarding schools and a local application [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=5026&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Race to Nowhere: Counterpoint</title>
		<link>http://themorechild.com/2010/12/08/race-to-nowhere-counterpoint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome new readers!  I&#8217;ve been told that the link to my previous blog about the recent Race to Nowhere screening was shared on a local high school listserv&#8230;. Yesterday morning&#8217;s New York Times greeted the nation with a stark rebuke to the message of Race to Nowhere.  The headline reads, &#8220;In PISA Test, Top Test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=4999&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The AP Drug</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents concerned about the crazy stress your high school students are under, look no further.  We have met the enemy&#8230;and he is your own school system administrators. The  Washington Examiner recently published article on declining AP pass rates in Fairfax and Montgomery Counties. Fairfax School Board member Jane Strauss credited higher AP exam participation rates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=5008&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Race to Nowhere:  Ground Zero</title>
		<link>http://themorechild.com/2010/12/04/race-to-nowhere-ground-zero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I finally had the opportunity to see the documentary Race to Nowhere.  I first wrote about it back in January, when was it a mere twinkle in the eye of a few education bloggers.  Fast forward ten months, and it&#8217;s been making the rounds of county high schools in PTA screenings, eliciting tears [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themorechild.com&#038;blog=2089565&#038;post=4970&#038;subd=themorechild&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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