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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Humor</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>
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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>Grammar and Syntax Standards?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/23/grammar-and-syntax-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/23/grammar-and-syntax-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;premature&#8221; release of the draft national standards on this blog yesterday prompted the National Governors Association to officially release the document today&#8211;along with the following statement:
STATEMENT FROM NGA: 
As some of you may be aware, the first working draft of the college and career-ready standards were prematurely released. NGA and CCSSO had hoped to incorporate [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teens Don&#8217;t Tweet</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/16/teens-dont-tweet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/16/teens-dont-tweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When 15-year-olds are writing research reports for Morgan Stanley advising executives worldwide how teens use social media, perhaps it&#8217;s an indication that we really don&#8217;t neeed to worry about teaching this stuff in school.  
By the way, according to the much-discussed report by bank intern Matthew Robson, teens don&#8217;t tweet.
&#8220;Teenagers do not use Twitter,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Most have signed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Family Downsizing</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/02/family-downsizing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/02/family-downsizing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg and his wife have reached a very difficult decision.  Given the economic hard times, the couple has decided to lay off one of their children.  At first, they tried reducing both of their children to part-time. &#8220;We tried it for a few days,&#8221; Rosenberg deadpans, &#8220;but it proved untenable.&#8221;
One night, as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ed Reform Devil&#8217;s Dictionary</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/19/ed-reform-devils-dictionary/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/19/ed-reform-devils-dictionary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Flypaper&#8217;s Mike Petrilli laments the tendency of both opponents and proponents of “school reform” to vilify the other side with caricatures.   &#8220;I think both sides care about improving children’s lives, want an education system that works for all kids, and think they are on the side of the angels,&#8221; Petrilli writes.  &#8220;So let’s keeping fighting [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Correcting Grammar is the Funnest Job</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/28/correcting-grammar-is-the-funnest-job/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/28/correcting-grammar-is-the-funnest-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grammar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do my ears deceive me?  Did Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs actually say on national television &#8211; on Meet the Press, no less &#8211; &#8220;this is the funnest, most rewarding job that I&#8217;ve ever had and it may well be the funnest and most rewarding job that I ever have.&#8221;
Funnest?  The man who speaks for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brown University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></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>Dollars and/or Cents&#8230;To Verizon, There&#8217;s No Difference</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/07/dollars-andor-centsto-verizon-theres-no-difference/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/07/dollars-andor-centsto-verizon-theres-no-difference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decimals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[math]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the difference between $.002 and .002¢?  In the case of this customer complaint captured by failblog.org, the difference amounts to about $70 dollars on a phone bill.  Alas, a customer service rep and a supervisor at Verizon refuse to accept they&#8217;re not the same amount.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lCJ3Oz5JVKs
Two things to do right away: Check your phone bill to make [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>What We Have Here Is a Failure To Communicate</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/22/what-we-have-here-is-a-failure-to-communicate/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/22/what-we-have-here-is-a-failure-to-communicate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading strategies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A government ministry in England has been called on the carpet for the &#8220;impenetrable language peppered with jargon&#8221; in its reports.  OK class, let&#8217;s use our reading strategies to make sense of this passage, shall we?
An overarching national improvement strategy will drive up quality and performance underpinned by specific plans for strategically significant areas of activity, such [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>These Things Take Time</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/12/11/these-things-take-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/12/11/these-things-take-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Secretary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Still no Education Secretary?  Flypaper is getting tired of waiting for Obama to make his choice.  Just a hunch, but there might be an obvious explanation for the hold-up.  Instead of the standard FBI background check and seven-page questionnaire, perhaps the President-elect&#8217;s education advisors are insisting the candidates submit portfolios and other &#8220;authentic assessments.&#8221;
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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