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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Higher Education</title>
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		<title>&#8220;And Thank You for Choosing Harvard University!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/03/and-thank-you-for-choosing-harvard-university/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/03/and-thank-you-for-choosing-harvard-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most sectors of our economy, customer focus is paramount, as it should be in education, too. Customer focus could yield a more student-centric system through the development and dissemination of user-friendly “truth-in-education” information that helps students make “best-fit” choices regarding which education provider to select based on customer preferences such as: academic quality, price, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Teacher Ed Should Look Like</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/02/what-teacher-ed-should-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/02/what-teacher-ed-should-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Engel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teacher education programs should be selective, rigorous&#8230;.and free, argues Susan Engel.  In a New York Times op-ed the psychologist and director of the teaching program at Williams College writes that admission to teacher ed programs should include &#8220;a stipend for the first three years of teaching in a public school.&#8221; 
Once we have a better pool of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Reverse Engineering Academic Upbringing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/19/reverse-engineering-academic-upbringing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/19/reverse-engineering-academic-upbringing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[math]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remediation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNLV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is launching an ambitious research project to figure out why so many of its freshmen need remediation in reading and math.  Every incoming student will be evaluated &#8220;to reverse-engineer his academic upbringing,&#8221; UNLV president Neal Smatresk tells the Las Vegas Sun.  Since eighty percent of UNLV&#8217;s undergrads come from a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Breaking the ELA Skills vs. Content Logjam</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/breaking-the-ela-skills-vs-content-logjam/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/breaking-the-ela-skills-vs-content-logjam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common core standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel T. Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ELA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the authors of the draft national standards are unwilling to name specific works of literature children should read, they should at least name specific literary movements, writes Dan Willingham.
The draft ELA standards floated by the Common Core State Standards Initiative focus almost exclusively on skills&#8211;what students should be able to glean from written texts, for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Raise the Age for Compulsory Ed?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/08/raise-the-age-for-compulsory-ed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/08/raise-the-age-for-compulsory-ed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college attendance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compulsory education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school graduation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Memory fades, but there were New York City schools chancellors before Joel Klein, and the guy who had the job most recently takes to the New York Times op-ed page with five ways to fix education.  The first suggestion on Harold Levy&#8217;s list, however, is an eyebrow-raiser. He wants to raise the age of compulsory [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Defense of the Liberal Arts</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/21/in-defense-of-the-liberal-arts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/21/in-defense-of-the-liberal-arts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal arts education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Less than 10% of college degrees are now being awarded in the Humanities, but former Semiotics major Lane Wallace, a writer and editor for Flying magazine, passionately disagrees with those who would deride a liberal arts education as impractical.  Writing in The Atlantic, she describes an epiphany that came when she took a leave of absence from Brown to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unaccountable Cash Cows?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/13/unaccountable-cash-cows/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/13/unaccountable-cash-cows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The dirty little secret about schools of education is that they have been the cash cows of universities for many, many years, and it&#8217;s time to say, &#8216;Show us what you can do, or get out of the business.&#8217;&#8221;  Nothing terribly controversial about those words, unless you consider the source:  Katherine Merseth, director of the teacher education program [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Goodbye, Columbus Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/13/goodbye-columbus-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/13/goodbye-columbus-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brown University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown University has decided Christopher Columbus no longer warrants a holiday.  But the faculty still wants a long weekend, so it&#8217;s Goodbye, Columbus Day.  Hello, Fall Weekend.  &#8220;Hundreds of Brown students had asked the Providence school to stop observing Columbus Day,&#8221; the AP reports, &#8221;citing the explorer&#8217;s violent treatment of Native Americans he encountered.&#8221; 
Let&#8217;s not stop [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>21st Century Skills 101</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/02/21st-century-skills-101/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/02/21st-century-skills-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A university in the U.K. is offering a masters degree in social networking – and catching flak for doing so. &#8220;Students on the £4,000 (approx. $6,000 U.S.) one-year Social Media degree, offered by Birmingham City University, will explore how we communicate on the websites and how they can be used for marketing,” the Guardian newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Want to Improve Education? Put Your Best Lessons on YouTube</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/31/want-to-improve-education-put-your-best-lessons-on-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/31/want-to-improve-education-put-your-best-lessons-on-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronicle of Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Carey looks at the collapse of newspapers and sees higher education on the same trajectory.  I&#8217;ll defer to Carey on what the Internet might do to higher ed, but I suspect that as long as there is market value in the credential of a name-brand university degree in addition to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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