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		<title>The Truth About Education (Why You Should Fight Back Against The System)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>In what other profession&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 27th, 2010 by David Reber I’m going to step out of my usual third-person writing voice for a moment. As a parent I received a letter last week from the Kansas State Board of Education, informing me that my children’s school district had been placed on “improvement” status for failing to meet “adequate yearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 1st, 2012: National Day of Action For Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statement: We refuse to pay for the crisis created by the 1%. We refuse to accept the dismantling of our schools and universities, while the banks and corporations make record profits. We refuse to accept educational re-segregation, massive tuition increases, outrageous student debt, and increasing privatization and corporatization. They got bailed out and we got sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Reform: An Order-of-Magnitude Improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday 26 January 2012 by: Marion Brady, Truthout &#124; Op-Ed Imagine the present corporately promoted education reform effort as a truck, its tires nearly flat from the weight of the many unexamined assumptions it carries. On board: An assumption that punishment and rewards effectively motivate; that machines can measure the quality of human thought; that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter from a teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I invite you to take a look and help us explain why educators and other public employees are the enemy? This has been a rough week. I don’t understand – why am I the enemy? I put myself though college – twice, bachelor’s and master’s &#8211; while my kids were little.  I worked full time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Should Sound Familiar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>World Geography Gets a Twist (Giveaway ended 9/8/2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Click here for a larger view) Several months ago I mentioned a world map that features a thought-provoking and truly interesting projection.  South is at the top. Every time I look at this particular projection I become more impressed with its ability to challenge my thinking and to arouse curiosity about my neighbors on planet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Search Tools You&#8217;re Not Using&#8230;Yet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently discovered 2 Google search functions that work really well and that practically nobody uses.  The first is known as &#8220;site search&#8221; and the other is &#8220;file search.&#8221; Site search allows you to look for something on a website without actually going to the site. This is especially powerful when applied to education sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This will make you smile if you&#8217;re feeling down!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s &#8220;School Speech&#8221; Video and Text</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re one of the unlucky few who didn&#8217;t have access to this speech because of the political bafoonery that surrounded it, here it is: Embedded video from &#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&#8221;http://www.cnn.com/video&#8221; mce_href=&#8221;http://www.cnn.com/video&#8221;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;CNN Video&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; You can download the written transcript of this speech by clicking here. Share on Facebook]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Resources for the Modern Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change is in the air.  Hope for a more unified world and a more balanced role in that world is upon us. To help re-align our thinking with the demands of the new world, I suggest revisiting some of the forward-thinking tools from our recent past. One of these tools is the Hobo-Dyer Projection World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of a Promise Kept</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In the end, hope won.   (I apologize for the 15 second commercial that leads this clip.  I chose to use it because of its quality, not its product endorsement.) Share on Facebook]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Teachers Are Being Heard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nice to hear a candidate admit that a plan that they are partially responsible for is failing and needs an overhaul.  It&#8217;s equally pleasing to hear that the focus this time around will be placed where it should have been all along. Share on Facebook]]></description>
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		<title>Taylor Mali-&#8221;What Do Teachers Make?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video captures a  rare, closed performance by Taylor Mali.  In it, he performs his slam-poetry piece, &#8220;What Teachers Make.&#8221;  Watch it any time you can&#8217;t remember why you still bother teaching. Share on Facebook]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Context, Connections and Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video makes a good case for fostering &#8220;learning communities&#8221; as a means of harnessing the talents and &#8220;connectedness&#8221; of modern kids.  As Steven Heppell points out, it&#8217;s time for the &#8220;death of education and the dawn of learning.&#8221; What kind of community experience are you fostering in your classroom?  Are you creating an environment that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Harvey Knows What&#8217;s Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to be able to post this Paul Harvey audio clip, which was recorded off-the-air over ten years ago.  Like all of his work, it is incredibly insightful, heartfelt and makes me cry every time I hear it. Take a few minutes to listen and see if you feel, as I do, that the eloquent classroom teacher [...]]]></description>
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