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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>Educational Humor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:32:34 +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>Head Start for 1st Year Teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular visitors to this site know that my wife, Cara, is a veteran 3rd and 4th grade teacher. As a seasoned pro, she&#8217;s often called upon to train both student teachers and other less experienced educators. One of the early realizations that these newbies have is that teaching takes a ton of planning and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self Correcting Math Quizzes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Despite its name, Multiplication.com is an interactive mathematics website that offers free, self correcting quizzes for students studying multiplication, division, addition or subtraction. Instant grade feedback and ease of use are the primary reasons to utilize this site, but other features like a test timer and  on-demand printing  are also handy (if you need a hard [...]]]></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>Well-organized, quality K-12 printables</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While not a flashy looker on the outside, Education.com sports beautiful, quality printables that are exceptionally well-organized and easily sortable.  They&#8217;re also free and numerous. Reading, math, social studies, science, writing, games, holidays and arts and crafts are all represented. One of the nice features of the site is that all of these materials can [...]]]></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>Best tool ever for teaching foreign languages?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am absolutely giddy.  I recently discovered a cool new project developed by Google that essentially allows anybody to instantly translate text from one language to another.  It&#8217;s called Google Translate and it has the potential to revolutionize  teaching resources. As an experiment, I copied the lyrics from the most popular song on this site, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language Arts Worksheets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Busy Teacher&#8217;s Cafe offers a free collection of themes, strategies and printables for reading, writing, language arts and math. I was most impressed with the reading and writing resources.  For some reason these subjects don&#8217;t normally translate to worksheets very well, but Busy Teacher&#8217;s Cafe has done a fine job of creating and collecting really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worksheet Gold Mine!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the most complete, high quality collections of well thought-out worksheets that I&#8217;ve come across in a long time.  If that wasn&#8217;t enough, they&#8217;re also free! Math, reading, writing, grammar, phonics, spelling, science and social studies worksheets are well organized, which means you won&#8217;t be wasting time trying to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Classification</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little known fact: the second most sought after song available on this website is &#8220;Animals Belong in Class,&#8221; by Teacher and the Rockbots. This song helps listeners differentiate between mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and arthropods by calling out descriptive clues about each class and then asking listeners to deduce the correct class. &#8220;Animals Belong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn the 50 States</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let&#8217;s Learn the 50 States&#8221; is the most downloaded song from the Teacher and the Rockbots&#8217; educational music catalogue. It is modern, energetic and not childish like so much of the genre. In addition to the song itself, there are printable flashcards and worksheets, wiki references and the bonus video above. All are free and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American History Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital History is an educational and non-commercial site designed specifically for history teachers and their students. Original reference documents, images, study guides, multimedia exhibits, maps, music, event summaries and much more are copyright-free and span from pre-1763 to the present. The resources are advanced enough to engage older kids and yet simply stated enough to [...]]]></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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