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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>Hurry-Up. Offend.</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/14/hurry-up-offend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Rhee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Whitmire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran eduscribe Richard Whitmire argues in a Wash Post op-ed that DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has &#8220;no choice but to play hardball&#8221; with teachers, unions and politicians.  
Running a hurry-up education offense is the only way Rhee can maintain a viable-sized school district that has dwindled to a mere 44,000 students, while the city&#8217;s charter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Curmudgeon Week Continues</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/09/national-curmudgeon-week-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Thomas Sowell goes off on a 5th grader.  Now Slate dismisses Eric Carle&#8217;s The Very Hungry Caterpillar for its &#8221;lack of narrative creativity—a laziness and repetitiveness that in time can breed deep parental resentment.&#8221;  What&#8217;s next? A restaurant review blasting mom&#8217;s meatloaf?
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		<title>The End of Education Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/21/the-end-of-education-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Checker Finn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCLB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=3383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A remarkable speech by Chester Finn of the Fordham Institute is all the more remarkable for the lack of chatter it has generated in the edusphere.  Titled &#8220;Is It Time to Throw in the Towel on Education Reform?&#8221; the September 9 speech at Rice University notes a broad consensus on education reform that has existed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow You, Follow Me</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/02/follow-you-follow-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/02/follow-you-follow-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In what is surely a rock-solid indicator that the trend has peaked and will now rapidly decline, I&#8217;m now on Twitter.  http://twitter.com/rpondiscio
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		<title>People, Some, With Words Have a Way</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/25/people-some-with-words-have-a-way/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/25/people-some-with-words-have-a-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[composition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grammar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=3168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Law professor and New York Times blogger Stanley Fish describes becoming alarmed about the inability of his students to write a clean sentence&#8211;even those who were instructors in his college&#8217;s composition program.  What was going on?
I decided to find out, and asked to see the lesson plans of the 104 sections. I read them and found that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling All Parents</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/21/calling-all-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[parental involvement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So let me make sure I&#8217;ve got this right.  If you want parents to be involved in your school &#8212; even low-income parents &#8212; you have to call them?  You mean, like on the telephone?!?
(H/T: Joanne Jacobs)
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		<title>Voluntary National Standards Dead on Arrival</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/22/voluntary-national-standards-dead-on-arrival/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/22/voluntary-national-standards-dead-on-arrival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CCSO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common core standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A draft of the newly developed common core state standards purports to offer &#8220;sufficient guidance and clarity so that they are teachable, learnable and measurable,&#8221; however the ELA guidelines offer almost no specific content and little that would be of use to teachers in planning lessons&#8211;or parents in understanding what their child is expected to know.
Copies of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Home Life &#8220;Out of the Shadows&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/20/bringing-home-life-out-of-the-shadows/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/20/bringing-home-life-out-of-the-shadows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Ferguson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Making schools better &#8220;should be only one part of our national strategy&#8221; on education, writes Harvard&#8217;s Ronald Ferguson.  &#8220;Life at home has been a relatively neglected topic and needs to come out of the shadows.&#8221; In a commentary at CNN.com Ferguson, who heads the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, says helping parents do their best needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Pittsburgh Hard to Spell? Definately.</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/14/is-pittsburgh-hard-to-spell-definately/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/14/is-pittsburgh-hard-to-spell-definately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spelling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For 80 years, a beacon atop the Grant Building in downtown Pittsburgh has flashed out the word &#8220;Pittsburgh&#8221; in Morse code.  At least it was supposed to.  No one knows for how long it&#8217;s been happening, but a sharp-eyed city resident waiting for a 4th of July fireworks show noticed the dots and dashes actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Partnership for 19th Century Skills</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/06/the-partnership-for-19th-century-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/06/the-partnership-for-19th-century-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Ravitch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[21st century skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[character education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common core]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I for one have heard quite enough about the 21st century skills that are sweeping the nation. Now, for the first time, children will be taught to think critically (never heard a word about that in the 20th century, did you?), to work in groups (I remember getting a grade on that very skill when [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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