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		<title>Obama Elementary School</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/22/obama-elementary-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Long Island school is changing its name to honor President-elect Barack Obama&#8211;apparently a national first.  Hempstead&#8217;s school board has voted unanimously to rename its Ludlum Elementary School as Barack Obama Elementary School.  The school&#8217;s enrollment is about two-thirds Hispanic and one-third African-American (Test scores, as reported by greatschools.net look very solid).  Long Island&#8217;s Newsday reports:
A Web search finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The View From Inside</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/21/the-view-from-inside/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/21/the-view-from-inside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Osberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[new paternalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nice to see this honest and clear-eyed post over at Fordham&#8217;s Flypaper about the minute-by-minute stress of trying to be effective in a high-needs school.  Eric Osberg describes his recent behind-the-scenes visit (as opposed to the typical VIP dog-and-pony show often given to visitors) to a friend&#8217;s &#8220;new paternalism&#8221; school.
It was amazing how many problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pledge of Allegiance Controversy</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/18/pledge-of-allegiance-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/18/pledge-of-allegiance-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pledge of Allegiance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Show of hands please.  Do the students at your school still recite the Pledge of Allegiance?  The Pledge went by the board at my school once the principal decided that all morning announcements &#8212; not just the Pledge &#8212; were a distraction that took away from learning time.  On the other hand, she once questioned the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher in Trouble for Anti-McCain Comments</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/08/teacher-in-trouble-for-anti-mccain-comments/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/08/teacher-in-trouble-for-anti-mccain-comments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diatha Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charges of political bias and bullying have landed a North Carolina teacher in hot water.  A clip from a Swedish documentary captures 5th grade teacher Diatha Harris talking to her class last May about the presidential election.  She&#8217;s not shy about expressing her point of view (responding &#8220;Oh, Jesus!&#8221; when one her students says she supports John McCain).  At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleveland Schools Frustrated By Tardiness</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/07/cleveland-schools-frustrated-by-tardiness/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/07/cleveland-schools-frustrated-by-tardiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attitudes toward school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleveland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tardiness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[School officials in Cleveland are concerned with chronic student tardiness.  Just over 24 percent of elementary students were late more than 15 days during the 2006-07 school year. By high school, it&#8217;s more than 41 percent, reports Cleveland.com
Tardiness is epidemic in the district, with double-digit percentages of students showing up late at some schools on any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yer Out!</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/10/09/yer-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/10/09/yer-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discipline]]></category>
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Some baseball fans wear their hearts on their sleeves.  Zachary Sharples, a Florida 7th-grader chose to wear his on his head, and that got him suspended from school.  Zachary got a &#8220;Ray-Hawk,&#8221; a kind of Mohawk favored by some players on the Tampa Bay Rays, sprayed it blue and cheered on his team in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/28/required-reading-16/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/28/required-reading-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A weekly roundup of the week’s most important news, information and blog posts about curriculum, teaching, education policy and other items of interest.
Core Knowledge
Counterfeit Equity
A new report from the Brookings Institution’s Tom Loveless notes many students are being pushed into algebra without having mastered basic skills such as multiplication, division and fractions. 
Hardy Perennials
From generous grading for failing work to &#8220;no homework&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Up, Stand Up</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/22/get-up-stand-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/09/22/get-up-stand-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classroom management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an idea that will appeal to every teacher who has had students who can&#8217;t sit still (read: every teacher):  Stand-up desks. 
&#8220;As part of a small but growing movement in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota that many teachers say is bound to gain popularity elsewhere, several schools are experimenting with their physical learning environments by incorporating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s In a Name?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/19/whats-in-a-name-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/19/whats-in-a-name-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amistad Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checker Finn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Whitman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fordham Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KIPP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Tabor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Whitmire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whitney Tilson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Whitman’s new book, Sweating the Small Stuff, looks at Amistad Academy, KIPP, SEED, and other successful inner city schools that have done the best work at closing the achievement gap.  The book is winning early praise from the education cognoscenti.  But there&#8217;s a problem:  
&#8220;I hate his subtitle, &#8216;Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism.&#8217; And I like his decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Less More?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/07/25/is-less-more/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/07/25/is-less-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About 100 schools in as many as 16 states have already moved to a four-day school week, many to save money on transportation, heating and cooling, Reuters reports. 
Webster County School District in Kentucky switched to a four-day week four years ago during a budget crisis, choosing to drop school days rather than cut staff and programs.  Not [...]]]></description>
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