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		<title>Axe Grinding?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/28/axe-grinding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[school dances]]></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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		<title>Are You Meeping Kidding Me?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/16/are-you-meeping-kidding-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/16/are-you-meeping-kidding-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The town of Danvers, Massachusetts can now claim prideful ownership of two great overreactions in American history.  The first was the Salem Witch Trials.  The second?  Banning the word “meep” at Danvers High School. 
Read it and meep.
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		<title>Trick or Tweet?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/27/trick-or-tweet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/27/trick-or-tweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel T. Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Week]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some months ago, I challenged teachers to give examples of good classroom uses of Twitter without using the term “engagement.”  In other words, is it possible to use the micro-blogging site to extend learning or create understanding in a superior way to other teaching methods?  It led to a lively discussion, but I’m not sure [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Just Send the Kid a Note Already</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/07/just-send-the-kid-a-note-already/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/07/just-send-the-kid-a-note-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing assignments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell recently got a letter from a fifth-grader at Sayre Elementary School in Lyon, Michigan asking the PhD economist what to do about the economy.  Sowell could have ignored the note, or sent back a brief greeting.  He had a different idea.
Instead, I replied to his parents: With American students consistently scoring near [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Boot Camp for Life&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/03/boot-camp-for-life/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/03/boot-camp-for-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post&#8217;s Valerie Strauss has debuted a new education blog.  She floats a fun and intriguing idea for middle school reform:  Blow up middle school as we know it and turn at least some of it into a “boot camp for life.&#8221;
Enough with “academic rigor.” No more projects on the Chesapeake Bay (or whatever body [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Most Self-Absorbed Generation</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/25/the-most-self-absorbed-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/25/the-most-self-absorbed-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new survey of college students says social networking makes them more narcissistic.  According to USA Today, they also believe their generation is their generation is the most narcissistic of all.
More than half (57%) said their peers used social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter for self-promotion, narcissism and attention-seeking. And 92% said [...]]]></description>
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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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		<title>Teens Don&#8217;t Tweet</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/16/teens-dont-tweet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/16/teens-dont-tweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When 15-year-olds are writing research reports for Morgan Stanley advising executives worldwide how teens use social media, perhaps it&#8217;s an indication that we really don&#8217;t neeed to worry about teaching this stuff in school.  
By the way, according to the much-discussed report by bank intern Matthew Robson, teens don&#8217;t tweet.
&#8220;Teenagers do not use Twitter,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Most have signed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time On-Text</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/19/time-on-text/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/19/time-on-text/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[American teenagers pound out an extraordinary number of text messages.  We knew this.  But a poll reported by USA Today indicates that one-fourth of their texts are sent during class, despite widespread cellphone bans. 
The survey of 1,013 teens — 84% of whom have cellphones — also shows that a significant number have stored information on a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Your Fault, But It Is Your Problem</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/11/its-not-your-fault-but-it-is-your-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/11/its-not-your-fault-but-it-is-your-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Bauerlein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Bauerlein has a piece on the Chronicle of Higher Ed&#8217;s Brainstorm blog that should give pause to those whose definition of achievement in public education starts and stops with reading and math scores. 
Bauerlein spins a fictional tale of a top Emory University law school student interviewing at one of the leading law firms in Atlanta.  Over lunch [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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