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		<title>Settling Conflicts: Guns and Homeschooling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 01:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Pinnock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when I blogged regularly about homeschooling, though I have not done so in a long time. A while back I started to blog about gun ownership. I engaged in each of these topics for similar reasons. I have a political and professional interest in homeschooling (as a science educator) and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuous learning – the way of the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Gyles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Reality The swift pace of change in the business and corporate world means that organisations should challenge themselves to think strategically in order to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. This is where continuous learning fits in. Knowledge today is somewhat transient; it changes and evolves with time. Continuous learning seeks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fleming hired as Palm Beach Atlantic University president</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Bickersteth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palm Beach Atlantic University has a new president, but it’s a change that many people might not notice. That’s because William Fleming Jr. has actually been in charge of the West Palm Beach-based Christian school for 14 months now, as interim president. During that period, the university’s Board of Trustees also conducted a national search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This needs to stop!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Bickersteth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this is a correction to my most recent blog on the circus. I am absolutely appalled in learning the animals in the circus are abused. I went with my family for the first time this past Sunday to see an elephant in person for the first time, if I had known of their horrific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campus Review: Conflicts of interest are not transparent, Australian study finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 18:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Pinnock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australian Study]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian universities are a long way from fully disclosing the connections between their researchers and vested interests, a study has found. The study shows that although most universities generally require staff to declare potential conflicts of interest, at least 15 institutions lack specific conflict-of-interest policies and just four demand annual declarations. Only eight universities maintain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MBA News: The New Yorker Profiles HBS Professor Clayton Christensen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Gyles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walk into a tech incubator like General Assembly and you will hear the phrase “disruptive technology” within seconds. Most people are using the phrase incorrectly. Why? How? Read the New Yorker’s profile of HBS professor Clayton Christensen, the man who coined the phrase and wrote the influential “Innovator’s Dilemma” to learn more: ]]></description>
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		<title>The consideration for using of cool outdoor toys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The important thing to remember about outside toys is that safety is top priority. No nails or screws should be left out and the soil around must be composed of soft grass or chips. It is time to be creative. Take a look at the toys your children is bored with and try to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>female peer pressure scares them off</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Pinnock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is there a dearth of female programmers? Alamy For three years we have run a big coding event across the UK called Young Rewired State . We invite people aged 18 and under to get together at a variety of centres local to them, and build something using open government data. It ends with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Golden Apple finalist Eric Riemenschneider</title>
		<link>http://www.top-rankschools.com/university-life/meet-golden-apple-finalist-eric-riemenschneider</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Bickersteth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Riemenschneider doesnt issue assignments to his students. Instead, he starts with a loose framework  design a T-shirt, create a corporate logo, develop a concert poster or paint a wild skateboard design. Students consult their personal books of inspiration, which are filled with images of their favorite bands, teams and other interests. Then they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Tech: Female Developers By the Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.top-rankschools.com/school-paragraph/women-in-tech-female-developers-by-the-numbers</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Gyles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not a secret: There are fewer women in tech than there are men. Women take up only a quarter of the nations tech jobs, though they make up half the American workforce. So, let’s run some numbers. Based on estimates from Q, an IT and Digital talent firm based in Los Angeles that specializes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Factoid: An International Program at Wharton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Gyles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To think of Wharton as a program that excels only in churning out investment bankers and management consultants would be a mistake. In fact, Wharton boasts a truly international program, ranked #2 in this area in the U.S. News &#038; World Report MBA Ranking by Specialty in 2012 (up from #3 in 2011). A full 36% of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientist Margaret Lowman&#x2019;s profile rises as head of the new N.C. Nature Research Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Pinnock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Lowmans office is the top of a tree. Its not her only one she also has a office with a desk at the Nature Research Center, where she serves as director. But her job is different from most museum-director positions, in that shell do a lot of it out in the treetop canopy. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop planned on redistricting in Broward</title>
		<link>http://www.top-rankschools.com/university-life/workshop-planned-on-redistricting-in-broward</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Bickersteth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Broward School District has started its lengthy redistricting process, and will hold the first of three mapping workshops Monday. The workshop is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. Monday at McArthur High in Hollywood. The School Board is required to redraw boundary lines every 10 years to ensure equal representation. Two of nine seats aren’t affected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help stop Creationism and Anti-Global Warming in Oklahoma schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Pinnock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So a lot of you saw my recent &#8216;debate&#8217; with Pastor Steve Kern. People who do not live in this part of the US often say that religious radicals like Kern, and his infamous wife Sally Kern, dont really exist. When people like me address/confront people like the Kerns, people who dont live in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Bickersteth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior prom is right around the corner and many people are getting ready now. The last two years I waited the last minute to find a dress, this year is different. I found the perfect dress. I never thought that a mermaid style dress would look good on me but I saw the dress and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake school board meets on proposed $1.25B budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Bickersteth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wake County school board members got a closer look Tuesday afternoon at the superintendent&#8217;s $1.25 billion proposed operating budget for the next school year. On the Web     Superintendents proposed budget Superintendent Tony Tata, earlier this month, laid out his spending priorities for 2012-13, which include investing in teachers and staff, setting conditions for all schools [...]]]></description>
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