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		<title>Math Anxiety: Catch It!</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/26/math-anxiety-catch-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers who lack confidence in their own mathematical abilities seem to pass that anxiety on to their female students, according to a provocative new study. 
&#8220;The more anxious a teacher was, the more likely a girl was to believe boys are good at math and girls are good at reading, and the more likely she was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>OMG!  Texting Doesn&#8217;t Harm Spelling</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/22/omg-texting-doesnt-harm-spelling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/22/omg-texting-doesnt-harm-spelling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[u wld thnk txting might encourage poor spelling.  according to a study in the uk u wld b wrong.
A study of 8 to 12 year olds suggests that children who regularly use texting shorthand actually improve their ability to spell.  Researchers surmise texting requires the same &#8220;phonological awareness&#8221; needed to learn correct spellings. &#8220;So when pupils replace or remove [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>

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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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>E.D Hirsch on Standards: &#8220;First, Do No Harm&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/15/e-d-hirsch-on-standards-first-do-no-harm/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/15/e-d-hirsch-on-standards-first-do-no-harm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[common core standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EdWeek&#8217;s Quality Counts special report offers a comprehensive catch-up on the issues surrounding the soon-to-be-released work of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.  Lots of great reads:  Sean Cavanagh&#8217;s overview looks at the history of academic standards, unresolved issues, and (thank you!) the perpetual confusion between standards and curriculum.  Stephen Sawchuk&#8217;s piece looks at the issues for teachers.  We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reading Research: Looking Where the Light is Better</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/12/reading-research-looking-where-the-light-is-better/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/12/reading-research-looking-where-the-light-is-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professional development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old joke about a drunk looking his wallet under a streetlight instead of in the dark alley where he dropped it?  Why?  &#8220;Because the light&#8217;s better here.&#8221;  
I thought of that joke when reading Dan Willingham&#8217;s latest over at the Washington Post&#8217;s Answer Sheet blog.  Willingham has written extensively about the importance of background knowledge to reading [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Literacy Creep</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/11/literacy-creep/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/11/literacy-creep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[readalouds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in last week’s Education Week looks at the increasingly common practice of reading aloud to middle and high school students.  In discussing the practice with Mary Ann Zehr (I’m quoted briefly in the piece) I made the point that while there is certainly nothing wrong with reading out loud to teenagers, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Overweight? Inactive?  Maybe It&#8217;s Your Gym Teacher&#8217;s Fault</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/08/overweight-inactive-maybe-its-your-gym-teachers-fault/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/08/overweight-inactive-maybe-its-your-gym-teachers-fault/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another potential hazard in the minefield of teaching.  A new study says humiliation in gym class can turn kids off of physical fitness for life.  Science Daily quotes one of the study participants:
&#8220;I am a 51-year-old woman whose childhood experiences with sports, particularly as handled in school, were so negative that even as I write [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>There’s No Such Thing as ‘Teaching’</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/07/there%e2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-%e2%80%98teaching%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/07/there%e2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-%e2%80%98teaching%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Senechal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to Amanda Ripley’s article “What Makes a Great Teacher?” (The Atlantic, January/February 2010), Teach for America has been gathering test score data to identify the personality traits of those teachers who bring results. Supposedly, if they determine those traits, they can recruit prospective teachers with the desirable personalities and thereby raise achievement.
So far, what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Movies in School: Seeing Is Believing (Unfortunately)</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/05/movies-in-school-seeing-is-believing-unfortunately/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/05/movies-in-school-seeing-is-believing-unfortunately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news and bad news about showing movies concerning historical events to students.  The good news is that a film based on a historical event seems to increase student engagement and retention of information.  The bad news is that the information they retain quite likely wrong. 
That’s the upshot of an interesting study highlighted by Dan [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does TFA Dampen Civic Engagement?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/04/does-tfa-dampen-civic-engagement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/04/does-tfa-dampen-civic-engagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic engagement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critics joke that TFA stands for &#8220;Teach For Awhile.&#8221;  But a new study suggests a more troubling and counterintuitive phenomenon.  A Stanford University study shows TFA grads are less likely to vote, give to charity or be otherwise civically engaged than those who dropped out of the program, or those who were accepted into the program but [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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