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		<title>$3000 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic school year</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Master Books®, a division of New Leaf Publishing Group, will award one $3000 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic school year.  The 2012 Master Books® Scholarship Essay Contest is open to any high school junior or senior or the equivalent thereof from any public, private, or homeschool venue. For additional terms and conditions click here. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you know? &#8211; Google Tricks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely everyone who has a computer has used Google for internet searches. But did you know Google is useful for a lot more than searching? Here are a few helpful tips you may not know about: Track flight status info by simply entering the airline and flight number. See the weather anywhere by typing &#8220;weather&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>27th greater Pittsburgh Homeschool Workshop</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, March 10, 2012 8:30am until 4:00pm Keynote speaker &#8211; Mark Hamby of Lamplighter Publishing &#8211; Save the date. South Hills Bible Chapel 300 Gallery Drive, McMurray, PA 15317 CHAP is very excited to part of the 27th Annual Greater Pittsburgh Homeschoolers Workshop! Be sure to stop by our table and say hello.]]></description>
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		<title>What is the difference between the SAT and ACT?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, the ACT was a second rate exam which only Midwest and southern colleges accepted. Not so anymore. Most if not colleges accept it. The ACT test assesses high school students’ general educational development and their ability to complete college-level work. It does this by assessing students’ performance in high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Homeschool Study May Appear in your Mailbox …</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 20, 2012 William A. Estrada, Esq. Director of Federal Relations We want to give you a heads-up that the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics is conducting a survey called the National Household Education Study (NHES). The purpose of this study is to find out where and how students in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are the advantages of home schooling?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Brian Ray from NHERI provides another great study of the advantages of homeschooling and the research that shows that students in structured homeschooling academically outperform conventional-school students, and there is no evidence that the difference is simply due to the family’s income or the mother’s educational attainment. Click her to download the study: http://www.nheri.org/Latest/Careful-Study-Finds-Homeschool-Advantage.html [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can See Clearly Now &#8211; The Kids Are Gone</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Beginning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Becky Whitaker IF it were possible to reflect on and learn from life’s trials, temptations, and mistakes BEFORE they occur, then I would probably choose that route. However, we all know life is not like that. And for most weary homeschool moms, we do not have much time or energy for reflecting. I admit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portfolio Log Requirements</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; by Dee Black, HSLDA Legal Counsel There are different interpretations within Pennsylvania’s homeschool community regarding the legal requirements for compiling a log that is part of the portfolio maintained by the parent conducting a home education program. Every year, Home School Legal Defense Association encounters various versions of logs as we assist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;THE FIRST THANKSGIVING&#8221; AT PLYMOUTH William Bradford, Of Plimoth Plantation : In the original 17th century spelling &#8220;They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health &#38; strenght, and had all things in good plenty; For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle to Preserve Traditional Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parental rights rest on marriage as it has been known and honored for centuries. Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Traditional marriage is under attack in Pennsylvania. In the case of Cozen O’Connor v. Tobits, a case now pending in federal court in Philadelphia involving the rights of a lesbian couple, one of the parties is [...]]]></description>
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