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		<title>Popular Culture and Kids: &#8220;Know Your Enemy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/27/popular-culture-and-kids-know-your-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few parents fully appreciate the corrosive effect that popular culture has on their children&#8217;s lives, writes Psychology Today blogger Jim Taylor, who observes that the music, movies, television and advertising children consume is no longer a reflection of contemporary values.  &#8220;Many heroes offered by popular culture are not heroic, many of its icons represent unhealthy values, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Achievement Gap a Media Gap?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/21/is-the-achievement-gap-a-media-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/21/is-the-achievement-gap-a-media-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most interesting piece of data to emerge from a sobering new Kaiser Family Foundation study of children&#8217;s media consumption habits is the extraordinary disparity between Hispanic and Black youth and Whites.  As the New York Times notes, the study shows kids 8 to 18 now spend practically every waking minute using a smart phone, computer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Knows Best</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/09/mother-knows-best/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/09/mother-knows-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I’m their mother. Shouldn’t I be able to decide if they get one?&#8221; said Georgia mom Patty &#8220;Jo Jo&#8221; Marsh. &#8220;If I&#8217;m such a bad parent, then how come they brought the kids back right after I got out jail?&#8221; Marsh asked.
What did she give her children?  (Hint: It&#8217;s not a pony.)
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The “Digital Decade” Has Changed Childhood Forever</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/28/the-%e2%80%9cdigital-decade%e2%80%9d-has-changed-childhood-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/28/the-%e2%80%9cdigital-decade%e2%80%9d-has-changed-childhood-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Wii and YouTube are among the innovations that have changed childhood – and parenting – for the better in the past decade.  And for the worst?  Grand Theft Auto, digital cheating, World of Warcraft, texting while driving and Webkinz.  So says Common Sense Media, which offers up a list of 20 innovations [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Helping Low-Income Parents Help Their Kids</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/23/helping-low-income-parents-help-their-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/23/helping-low-income-parents-help-their-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foundation for Child Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low-income students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parental involvement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under Title I, schools serving the children of low-income families are required to spend 1% of those funds engaging parents in their childrens&#8217; education.  But there is little oversight on how schools spend that money&#8211;and little sense if the efforts are raising achievement, according to Dale Russakoff of the Foundation for Child Development.
Writing in the Los Angeles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chaos Theory</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/15/chaos-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/15/chaos-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IQ]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chaos is bad for kids.  Noisy households with no set routines or predictability contribute to lower IQ and behavior problems in children, according to a new study cited by Dan Willingham on his Washington Post blog.  What&#8217;s cause and what&#8217;s effect?  Certainly, he notes, household chaos could easily correlate with plenty of other issues that could negatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WH Official:  Hispanics Lack &#8220;Sense of Urgency&#8221; on Education</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/08/wh-official-hispanics-lack-sense-of-urgency-on-education/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/08/wh-official-hispanics-lack-sense-of-urgency-on-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hispanic students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Administration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a comment I haven&#8217;t seen repeated or discussed anywhere.  Juan Sepulveda, director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, said in New Mexico last week that Hispanics aren&#8217;t being aggressive enough about closing the academic achievement gap.  According to a report in the Albuquerque Journal, Sepulveda has visited 18 states [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Parent Power on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/07/parent-power-on-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/12/07/parent-power-on-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When parents in Palm Beach County, Florida became unhappy with a new school district testing initiative called &#8220;embedded assessments&#8221; and other changes to the curriculum, they organized a potent online resistance.  &#8220;They started with e-mails,&#8221; reports the Sun-Sentinel newspaper. &#8220;Then they created Facebook pages. Then came a website.&#8221;
&#8220;The Internet is a common denominator for most people,&#8221; says parent [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Axe Grinding?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/28/axe-grinding/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/28/axe-grinding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents in one Rhode Island school district are wondering whether &#8220;grinding,&#8221; a sexually suggestive form of dancing, should be banned at school dances. 
It’s gotten to the point where it’s uncomfortable to watch,” said Kate Macinanti, chairwoman of the high school’s dance committee – a subgroup of the South Kingstown High School Parent-Teacher Group. “A good [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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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>
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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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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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