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	<description>Reinventing Secondary Education</description>
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		<title>Field Trip to Fitness for Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our final all-school field trip of the year took us to Fitness for Health (FFH), in anticipation of FFH partnering with SFT next year to create a state-of-the-art, customized fitness program for our students.  This fun-filled visit to FFH proved to be the most physically demanding of all of our inaugural year fields trips, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=949</link>
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		<title>Return to Homestead Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday SFT students and faculty returned to Homestead Farm, a spring repeat of a field trip we first took in the fall. This time we picked strawberries (last time, apples). A good time was had by all (or at least almost all, for allergies and mosquitoes substantially diminished the enjoyment of some). Special thanks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=845</link>
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		<title>SFT Kids to Help Kids in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our extended search for the right Haitian organization for SFT to support on an ongoing, long-term basis has now connected us with the Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC). ACFFC is a non-sectarian, apolitical arts based nonprofit dedicated to the personal growth, empowerment, and education of children in need in Jacmel, a historic town in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=821</link>
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		<title>UMBC History Day Victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SFT students Rollin Tschirgi and Jordan Shusterman, winners of the Senior Group Exhibit category at the March 2 Montgomery County History Day Competition, participated in the Maryland History Day Competition at UMBC in Baltimore &#8212; and won (twice)!  They not only won first prize in their category, they were awarded a special prize, the Milt Zaslow Award [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=373</link>
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		<title>Montgomery County History Day Competition Victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday two of our students, Rollin Tschirgi and Jordan Shusterman, won the Senior Group Exhibit category at the 11th Annual Montgomery County History Day Competition; they will now advance to the Maryland History Day State Competition at UMBC on April 24.  This year&#8217;s National History Day theme is &#8220;Innovation in History,&#8221; and Rollin and Jordan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=358</link>
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		<title>Alan Shusterman Interviewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SFT Founder and Head Alan Shusterman was recently interviewed by Sara Bennet, co-author of The Case Against Homework.  The interview can be found on the Stop Homework website.  Already, others are talking favorably about it &#8212; e.g., on the Edutechnophobia website and the Edutopia website.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=338</link>
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		<title>Teen Ink and Creative Communication Publish SFT Student Poems, Short Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that one of our students recently had his short story published in the online magazine Teen Ink.  This follows the good news that five of our students have had their poems selected for publication in Creative Communication&#8217;s Celebration of Poets anthology.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=315</link>
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		<title>Another New Student</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we had our fourth new student join us since the beginning of the school year in September &#8212; and now we&#8217;ve just accepted a fifth new student, who will be starting with us after Winter Break.  It has been gratifying that, after spending a day (or more) visiting us, and completing our admissions process, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=282</link>
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		<title>Fantastic Field Trips Continue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday we visited the National Aquarium in Baltimore; led by science teacher Rickey Torrence, our students were able to view live samples of the organisms they&#8217;d researched, as well as attend Our Ocean Planet: The New Dolphin Show and Planet Earth: Shallow Seas 4-D Experience. Other all-school field trips we&#8217;ve already had the privilege [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=237</link>
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		<title>Students Testify at Planning Commission Hearing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks, four SFT middle school students, under the guidance of SFT Field Studies Coordinator Ellen Pearl, conducted an independent project learning about the issues surrounding a proposed &#8220;mega church&#8221; that would be built near Sugarloaf Mountain at the Frederick-Montgomery County line.  Yesterday, three of the students &#8212; Lydia Burman, Rebecca Shusterman, and David Waldman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schoolfortomorrow.net/?p=220</link>
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