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		<title>Join RTV for Saturday&#8217;s National Youth Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2011/02/join-rtv-for-saturdays-national-youth-summit.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2011/02/join-rtv-for-saturdays-national-youth-summit.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aubrey Vaughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy Class]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2020 Vision]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arnie Duncan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asheru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DJ Priest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guerilla Arts Ink]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, Rock the Vote will be out supporting student leaders from across the nation at the Department of Education’s first-ever National Youth Summit at Howard University. After listening to remarks by Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan, the day will proceed with Q&#38;A’s, discussions on important educational themes, workshops, music (including performances by DJ Priest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get O As Your Grad Speaker</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2011/02/get-o-as-your-grad-speaker.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2011/02/get-o-as-your-grad-speaker.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Axelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama wants to have the highest college graduation rate in the world by 2020, so he’s asking high schools across the country to share how they prepare students for college and careers. The incentive? The high school that demonstrates the best job of preparing students will host President Obama as a commencement speaker this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reform Education at National Summit!</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2011/01/reform-education-at-national-summit.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2011/01/reform-education-at-national-summit.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Coyle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Want to help America become the leader in college completion by 2020? The Department of Education is holding a National Youth Summit on Saturday, February 26th to close their National Youth Listening Tour.  The summit will brief students on the ideas they have heard to date and provide a forum for young people to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student journalists address the issues with Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/09/student-journalists-address-the-issues-with-obama.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/09/student-journalists-address-the-issues-with-obama.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Yarnell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[college affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennnials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pell Grants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is Barack Obama doing to help you manage student loans, or find a job after college? What would you say if you could call him up and ask him? Today student journalists from colleges around the country spent some time on the phone with the president to ask these questions, clearly speaking on behalf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Addresses Students LIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/09/president-addresses-students-live.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/09/president-addresses-students-live.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welcome back message]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/?p=3416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama will deliver a welcome back to school message to students from across the country from Philadelphia&#8217;s Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School today at 1:00 Eastern. You can watch the address here live and then again on replay after the speech has been delivered. JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV Tweet]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Community College Rocks</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/07/florida-community-college-rocks.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/07/florida-community-college-rocks.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blaire@rockthevote.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blaire Yancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community College]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young people around Florida face serious obstacles to obtain a higher education degree these days. The state university Board of Governors put into effect a 15% tuition increase at all public universities—the largest hike allowed under the law. The wounded economy caused sparse lending, capped scholarships, and tighter requirements for public funding like the Florida [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$60 Billion for Higher Education</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/03/60-billion-for-educational-aid.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/03/60-billion-for-educational-aid.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Community College Alexandria Campus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student aid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the stroke of a pen today, President Obama sealed a hard-fought victory for students. The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act was signed into law this morning at the Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus. Simply stated, today our country chose to invest in college students over bank profits. Nice. The law ends wasteful subsidies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Textbook Massacre</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/03/texas-textbook-massacre.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/03/texas-textbook-massacre.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/?p=2641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone over here at Rock the Vote is pretty worked up over the Texas Education Agency&#8217;s State Board of Education&#8217;s recent vote to re-write Texas Social Studies textbooks to reflect a partisan view point. These 15 partisan elected members of the Board of Education are attempting to write history books the way they see fit. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another big day for students</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2009/07/another-big-day-for-students.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2009/07/another-big-day-for-students.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another big step for students occurred today when the House Education and Labor Committee passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 by a vote of 30-17.  The fancy title of the legislation basically means that if this passes Congress it will accomplish: Investing $40 billion to increase the maximum annual Pell Grant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students over Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2009/07/students-over-banks.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2009/07/students-over-banks.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who&#8217;s got student loans, is thinking about or is in college or knows someone in school should appreciate this.  This morning, Rep. George Miller (CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, introduced the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act.  This bill proposes to eliminate subsidies to student loan companies and use [...]]]></description>
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