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	<title>EUR This N That &#124; Urban Black News Blog &#187; education</title>
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		<title>Texas Re-writing History Without Hispanics and Blacks?</title>
		<link>http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2010/03/17/texas-re-writing-history-without-hispanics-and-blacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Texas has become the centerpiece for conservative education and a downward spiral in the fight for a decent education in America.  America is on fire with the debate over funding cuts to education.  But, there are other issues in education slipping under the radar.  Members of the Texas board of education are re-writing history by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8-Year Old Twins Pass Math Proficiency Tests&#8230;for High School! (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe that there are 8-year old twins that have more math skills than a lot of our graduating seniors here in America?  Paula and Peter Imafidon passed the University of Cambridge Advanced Maths A level.  In other words, they&#8217;re ready for HIGH SCHOOL!  What in the heck could their parent&#8217;s recipe be for this type of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas City Closes Its Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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The recession has not been confined to groceries and mortgages anymore.  The cities are now seeing their budgets affected and cuts have to be made everywhere.  Kansas City just decided to make their cuts in education.  They will close nearly half of their schools.  According to the AP, they will be closing 29 of their 61 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University Fires Adjunct Faculty After &#8216;N&#8217; Word Example</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A college in suburban Baltimore, Towson University, has fired one of their adjunct faculty members for taking his teaching a little bit too seriously.  Professor Allen Zaruba thought he&#8217;d use a metaphor including the &#8220;N&#8221; word that would drive home his point about &#8221;Themes of Contemporary Art,&#8221; a textbook he called &#8220;very politically incorrect.&#8221;  How he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Is Engaged In New War&#8230;On Education</title>
		<link>http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2010/03/05/u-s-is-engaged-in-new-war-on-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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The entire country is in an uproar on the cutbacks to education from kindergarten to college.  But, as the funding has been cut back in states throughout the U.S., student&#8217;s tuition and fees have soared as a response.  State governments plan to let the students shoulder the burden that they have created. 
According to CNN, UC students throughout their system have literally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Teachers Mock Black History Month with Rodman, RuPaul and O.J.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black History Month has truly come to a close&#8230;and with what three white male teachers would call a &#8220;bang.&#8221;  The school, which is 90% latino, was putting on a Black History Month parade where the children would carry pictures of famous African Americans.  Well the bang those teachers were trying to make was in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhode Island Fires All Teachers at Under Performing School</title>
		<link>http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2010/02/25/rhode-island-fires-all-teachers-at-under-performing-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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A lot of school systems throughout America need to take a page out of the handbook being used in Rhode Island&#8217;s education system.  Because if Lil Johnny&#8217;s test scores suggest that he&#8217;s skated into sophomore year with a rack of C&#8217;s and D&#8217;s on his report card, something is amiss and needs to be reprimanded.  The Rhode Island school system was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black History Month Spotlight:  Huey P. Newton</title>
		<link>http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2010/02/17/black-history-month-spotlight-huey-p-newton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1942, Huey Percy Newton was born in Monroe, La.  He would go on to become one of the two founders of an empowering black organization that would be called the The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, usually shortened to The Black Panthers.  With his friend Bobby Seale, who he met at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: University of Alabama Massacre Claims 2 Black Scientists</title>
		<link>http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2010/02/16/update-university-of-alabama-massacre-claims-2-black-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2010/02/16/update-university-of-alabama-massacre-claims-2-black-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have reported on the slayings at University of Alabama-Huntsville, but we learned yesterday that two of the three scientists that were slain by scientific psychopath Amy Bishop were black.  Dr. Adriel D. Johnson,Sr., 52, present research is in the area of cell biology and nutritional physiology.  According to his page for the Department of Biological Sciences at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black History Month Spotlight:  New Jersey Last To Stop Slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2010/02/15/black-history-month-spotlight-new-jersey-last-to-stop-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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On this day, February 15, 1804, New Jersey was the last northern state to put forth as law the gradual ending of slavery.  Wikipedia states that:
New Jersey banned the importation of slaves in 1788, but at the same time forbade free Negroes from elsewhere from settling in the state.  In the years following the American Revolution, the [...]]]></description>
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