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	<title><![CDATA[The Surge Against First Graders]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-stager/the-surge-against-first-g_b_100456.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>When overseas colleagues criticize American foreign policy, I've been known to respond, &amp;quot;If you like Iraq, you'll love what the Bush administration has done to public education.&amp;quot; Late last week, the US Department of Education proved my point when they released the&amp;nbsp;<a href="http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20084016/index.asp">Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report</a>.&amp;nbsp;</p>
<p>Like the invasion of Iraq or the&amp;nbsp;disastrous&amp;nbsp;Katrina aftermath, Reading First is the latest in a string of&amp;nbsp;colossal&amp;nbsp;failures of the Bush administration. As in the other cases of malfeasance, the White House is spinning...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-05-16T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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