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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free range kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helicopter parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parental involvement]]></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>Give Me Harvard or Give Me Death</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/10/give-me-harvard-or-give-me-death/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/10/give-me-harvard-or-give-me-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-stakes testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parental anxiety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Parental anxiety is ruining playtime, notes the Washington Post&#8217;s Valerie Strauss.  It&#8217;s not news that lots of preschool parents have become &#8220;super-anxious trying to give their kids a leg up on kindergarten,&#8221; Strauss writes at The Answer Sheet.  &#8220;But I didn&#8217;t realize just how nutty things had become until I talked to several dozen preschool program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Bedtime is Book Time, Why Not &#8220;Morning Math?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/07/if-bedtime-is-book-time-why-not-morning-math/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/07/if-bedtime-is-book-time-why-not-morning-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Ed Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The best idea I&#8217;ve heard in a long time comes courtesy of Lisa Guernsey of Early Ed Watch (where is Sara Mead, anyway?) who points out that every parent gets the idea that bedtime is book time, but what about math?  She&#8217;s encouraging parents &#8220;to build math moments into the morning routine, just as book reading is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Parental [Dis]engagement</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/31/parental-disengagement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/31/parental-disengagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Middle school teacher Mrs. Bluebird loves PowerSchool, her district&#8217;s online grading system.  It lets her update students&#8217; grades from home, run progress reports and all kinds of other tricks.   &#8220;Parents can check grades any time of the night or day, see that work is missing, and can even get grade updates emailed to them,&#8221; she writes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Biking Allowed</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/no-biking-allowed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/no-biking-allowed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An upstate New York mother is fighting a school policy that prohibits her 12-year-old son from riding his bike to and from school each day.  Seventh-grader Adam Marino and his mother, Janette Kaddo Marino, were met one day by a school administrator and a state trooper who told them that biking and walking to the school are &#8220;banned.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kids, Don&#8217;t Try This At Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/kids-dont-try-this-at-home/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/kids-dont-try-this-at-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common sense media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass of Gossip Girl, and Nancy Botwin, played by Mary-Louise Parker on Weeds, top Common Sense Media&#8217;s list of the &#8220;10 Worst TV Role Models.&#8221;  The Gossip Girl duo represent the &#8220;ultimate mean girl&#8221; and a &#8220;drinking, drugging gigolo,&#8221; while Botwin &#8220;makes consistently terrible parenting decisions, getting her sons caught up [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pinocchio Parents (and Teachers)</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/01/pinocchio-parents-and-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/01/pinocchio-parents-and-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most mothers and fathers practice &#8220;Pinocchio parenting&#8221; &#8212; teaching their kids that lying is bad while regularly fibbing to them, according to a pair of new studies in the Journal of Moral Education.
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California found that parents who stress the importance of truth-telling to their little [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask Your Child About Content, Not Grades</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/10/ask-your-child-about-content-not-grades/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/10/ask-your-child-about-content-not-grades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[studying]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t ask your kids about grades, test scores or homework, advises Kerry Dickinson of the East Bay Homework Blog.  Instead, focus on the content of the subject he or she is studying.
Instead of “What did you get on the test?” say, “What are you learning in science?” If you are connected to some school communication [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Parents Read More, Praise More, But Keep Kids on a Short Leash</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/19/parents-read-more-praise-more-but-keep-kids-on-a-short-leash/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/19/parents-read-more-praise-more-but-keep-kids-on-a-short-leash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Children today have fewer chores around the house and greater autonomy than previous generations, but they&#8217;re kept on a shorter leash outside the home.  That&#8217;s the takeaway from a novel study that analyzed 300 advice columns and editorials from randomly chosen issues of Parents magazine from 1929 to 2006.  Dr. Markella Rutherford of Wellesley College was studying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>No Excuses</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/17/no-excuses/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/17/no-excuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["no excuses"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest applause line in President Obama&#8217;s speech to the NAACP Thursday wasn&#8217;t in his prepared remarks&#8211;it came when he exhorted parents and children to take full advantage of their educational opportunities and make &#8220;no excuses.&#8221;
We have to say to our children, Yes, if you&#8217;re African American, the odds of growing up amid [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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