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							<title><![CDATA[Ending Summer Vacation is Long Overdue. Here's How to Pay for It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/07/ending_summer_vacation_is_long_overdueheres_how_to_pay_for_it_119534.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Chingos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Summer is a popular time to write opinion pieces calling for the end of summer vacation as an anachronism that widens achievement gaps between rich and poor students.  The details of the argument vary&mdash;see examples from summers 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013&mdash;but the basic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Blow It on Student Loan Interest Rates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/28/democrats_blow_it_on_student_loan_interest_rates_119025.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Chingos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A glimmer of hope in the debate over student loan interest rates briefly appeared this week with the release of the first bipartisan proposal to address the impending doubling of interest rates on subsidized student loans, only to be dashed by the Democratic leadership in the Senate. The...]]></description>
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