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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Education Leadership</title>
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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>Great Job!  Go Sit on the Bench</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/03/great-job-go-sit-on-the-bench/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/03/great-job-go-sit-on-the-bench/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arne Duncan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[math coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jay Mathews thinks Arne Duncan shouldn&#8217;t be the Secretary of Education.  In fact, he looks at recent Ed Secys Bill Bennett, Rod Paige, Dick Riley, Margaret Spellings and Duncan and asks why do we have the job at all? 
Their best work for kids, in my view, happened when they were NOT education secretary. So let&#8217;s abolish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock Stars vs. Breaking Rocks</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/21/rock-stars-vs-breaking-rocks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/21/rock-stars-vs-breaking-rocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andres Alonso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beverly Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school superintendents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wanda Bamberg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Admit it.  If Baltimore schools CEO Andrés Alonso sat next to you on the subway you probably wouldn&#8217;t recognize him.  
The Baltimore Sun files an interesting editorial giving Alonso high marks for what he&#8217;s acomplished&#8211;and for not being Michelle Rhee, whose reform agenda, the paper notes, &#8220;is in many ways indistinguishable&#8221; from his.  Unlike Rhee, Alonso has won &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walk A Mile In Their Shoes</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/19/walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/19/walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Love this idea.
Administrators in Florida&#8217;s Broward school district will be required to work as substitute teachers this year. &#8220;A similar project is in the works in Miami-Dade, where Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has proposed creating an &#8220;Everybody Teaches&#8221; Academy to bring district administrators into classrooms of struggling schools at least six times a year,&#8221; the Miami Herald reports. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Have a Dream</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/22/i-have-a-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/22/i-have-a-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Meier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education equality project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=2688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It would have chilled Martin Luther King’s blood to see how the struggle for equality has been narrowed into a race for higher test scores in a society that abandoned Lyndon Johnson’s &#8216;War on Poverty.&#8217;&#8221; 
Them&#8217;s fightin&#8217; words.
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		<title>Protect Teachers? Or Protect the Profession?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/18/protect-teachers-or-protect-the-profession/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/18/protect-teachers-or-protect-the-profession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professional practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Brittanica Blog, Dan Willingham takes a look at teachers&#8217; wish for greater respect and the role of unions in winning it.  He observes that unions perform two important functions that are fundamentally at odds with each other: they protect the rights of individual teachers in personnel matters, and they undertake public relations and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Effect Sounds Good, However&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/30/the-obama-effect-sounds-good-however/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/30/the-obama-effect-sounds-good-however/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low-income students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Whitmire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Obama Effect&#8221; sounds good in theory, but it&#8217;s going to take a lot more than inspiration to close the achievement gap, says Richard Whitmire.  Writing on U.S. News&#8217; blog, the edublogger and president of the National Education Writers Association notes that he&#8217;d like nothing more than to jump on the Obama Effect bandwagon.
But as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s To Blame for Bad Schools? Look in the Mirror</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/27/whos-to-blame-for-bad-schools-look-in-the-mirror/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/27/whos-to-blame-for-bad-schools-look-in-the-mirror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K-12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[http://youtube.com/watch?v=OXQs8ykQ0dg&#38;feature
Nevada&#8217;s public education system is a &#8220;disaster&#8221; says the state&#8217;s university chancellor, and Nevadans have no one to blame but themselves.  In a remarkable and scathing &#8220;State of the System&#8221; speech ostensibly to rail against proposed cuts to the state&#8217;s education budget, James Rogers calls Nevada&#8217;s parents to account.
The state of K-16 education in Nevada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KIPP To My U My Darlin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/14/kipp-to-my-u-my-darlin/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/14/kipp-to-my-u-my-darlin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KIPP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UFT, that is.
By now you&#8217;ve heard the news:  Teachers at two KIPP charter schools in the Big Apple have voted to join the United Federation of Teachers.  It&#8217;s a big deal in the charter school world, since the charter movement, per the New York Times, &#8220;has long sold itself as an alternative that is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turnaround Without Turmoil, Part II</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/12/turnaround-without-turmoil-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/12/turnaround-without-turmoil-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low-income students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low-performing school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Fisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school turnaround]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington DC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher set tongues in motion last week with his piece about Broad Acres Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, a high-poverty school, which has reversed its performance in the last few years by raising expectations and cooperating with its teachers union.  In a promised follow up column, Fisher looks in on Truesdell Educational Center, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turnaround Without Turmoil</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/09/turnaround-without-turmoil/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/09/turnaround-without-turmoil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school turnaround]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are conflict and confrontation necessary ingredients in a school turnaround?  Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher files a provocative column about a Maryland school that is succeeding without the kind of bare knuckle brawls that are drawing national media attention to Michelle Rhee and the nearby Washington, DC school system.
Fisher goes to Broad Acres Elementary School in Silver [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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