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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Education News</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Infantilizing Our Kids Into Incompetence&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/20/infantilizing-our-kids-into-incompetence/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/20/infantilizing-our-kids-into-incompetence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free range kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helicopter parents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new revolution is under way, according to the cover story of the latest Time Magazine.  It&#8217;s aimed at rolling back &#8220;the almost comical overprotectiveness and overinvestment of moms and dads.&#8221;    Call it slow parenting, simplicity parenting, free-range parenting, the magazine notes, but the message is the same: &#8220;Less is more; hovering is dangerous; failure is fruitful. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Say Can You C.E.?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/17/oh-say-can-you-c-e/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Missouri school district has run afoul of some parents for teaching children to identify when historical events occurred by the designations &#8221;C.E.&#8221; (Common Era) and &#8220;B.C.E.&#8221; (Before Common Era) in addition to the traditional B.C. and A.D.   The numbers don&#8217;t change one way or the other.  It&#8217;s equally accurate to say Julius Caesar was murdered in 44 B.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neologism Watch</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/17/neologism-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/17/neologism-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New Oxford Dictionary has named &#8220;unfriend&#8221; as the 2009 Word of the Year. 
Unfriend (v.)  The act of &#8220;remov[ing] someone as a &#8216;friend&#8217; on a social networking site such as Facebook.&#8221;
An unlovely word, unfriend (wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;defriend&#8221; be more accurate?) beat out other tech terms for Word of the Year, including sexting, hashtag, and intexticated&#8211;defined as driving while distracted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Blogger Named to Common Standards Panel</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/16/ed-blogger-named-to-common-standards-panel/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/16/ed-blogger-named-to-common-standards-panel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A name familiar in edublog circles will serve on the newly announced “work groups” charged with developing K-12 standards in English Language Arts and math.  Diana Senechal, who contributes to the Core Knowledge Blog and pinch-hits at Joanne Jacobs&#8217; blog has been named to the panel authoring the ELA standards.  Matt Davis, who along with Souzanne Wright is leading the development of the Core Knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give It Away</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/12/give-it-away/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/12/give-it-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grading policies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tout le blogosphere is high dudgeon over a North Carolina middle school fundraiser offering an extra 20 points on two tests for a $20 donation.  All of those schools that have instituted &#8220;No Grade Below 50&#8243; policies must be kicking themselves for leaving money on the table.
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		<title>Dan Willingham&#8217;s Hall of Shame</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/11/dan-willinghams-hall-of-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/11/dan-willinghams-hall-of-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eyeQ]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Willingham has debuted a new feature over the the Washington Post&#8217;s Answer Sheet blog aimed at debunking scientific claims made on behalf  of educational products.  The first case on the docket is a computer program called eyeQ, which purports to improve reading speed by teaching kids to use both hemispheres of the brain during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alter&#8217;s Ego</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/05/alters-ego/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/05/alters-ego/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Alter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merit pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public School Insights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A suggestion by Claus Von Zastrow of Public School Insights that pundits like Jonathan Alter who write about education be subject to performance pay attracted the notice of Alter, who has been mixing it up with commenters to the post.  It started when Von Zastrow took issue with Alter&#8217;s KIPP cheerleading and broad brush take on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein on the Fritz</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/02/einstein-on-the-fritz/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/02/einstein-on-the-fritz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interacting with Baby Einstein DVDs may not make your baby smarter. But interacting with Dan Willingham will make you smarter about the claims marketers make on behalf of educational products.  Dan&#8217;s take on the Baby Einstein flap is up at the Washington Post&#8217;s Answer Sheet blog.  &#8221;Many parents already believe that visual stimulation and classical music (which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Slumdog Ate My Homework</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/30/the-slumdog-ate-my-homework/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/30/the-slumdog-ate-my-homework/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The two child stars of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire are in danger of losing a trust fund set up by the movie&#8217;s producers because they&#8217;re not regularly attending school.  The parents of 10-year-old Rubina Ali and 11-year-old Azhar Mohammed Ismail blame the absences on deaths in the family and other problems.  But the two are reportedly skipping class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Good Teaching Equal Good Test Scores?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/24/does-good-teaching-equal-good-test-scores/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/24/does-good-teaching-equal-good-test-scores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his New York  Times column praising the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;quiet revolution&#8221; on education, David Brooks writes &#8221;there is clear evidence that good teachers produce consistently better student test scores.&#8221;   I ask this question not rhetorically, but in earnest: what is the &#8220;clear evidence&#8221; to which Brooks refers?   Is there a study that defines good teaching, identifies good teachers and THEN looks [...]]]></description>
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