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	<description>ClassTalk is all about teaching, learning, reform, technology, schools and how they all interact in a complex society.</description>
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		<title>The Joyce Irvine Story: The Consequences of the For-Profit Testing Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["When rewarded or punished solely on test scores schools are encouraged to push out or not take students who will not score well, narrow the curriculum to basic skills, cut out enrichment and engagement activities, and narrow teaching to rote memorization drills."]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting Needs Reform Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing the emotional, and especially socioeconomic reality of what parents (and subsequently teachers) face is the foundation of proper, non-corporate, lasting and rewarding education reform.]]></description>
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		<title>Just Stirs Up More Draconian Chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["A shift in principals, and teacher turnover already happens frequently at struggling schools and creates instability that is part of the problem."]]></description>
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		<title>Digest: LA Unified; Baltimore Lawsuit; Ravitch</title>
		<link>http://classtalk.info/?p=225</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Ravitch’s reversal represents a tacit acknowledgment that no kind of educational reform will work without a fundamental change in the way America’s poor are treated in every aspect of their lives."]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful Words</title>
		<link>http://classtalk.info/?p=217</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["What parents need to be taught specifically is how to support the linguistic, cognitive, social and emotional development of their children."]]></description>
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		<title>Denver Teachers Get New Contract</title>
		<link>http://classtalk.info/?p=143</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contracts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["... all teachers will get a cost of living increase of 3 percent, and in each of the next two years, salary will increase by an amount equal to the Consumer Price Index plus .25 percent."]]></description>
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		<title>New Bulletin Board for Social Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new digs at the elementary school are really nice and I’m very happy with the room (and everything else).]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Read</title>
		<link>http://classtalk.info/?p=141</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["... a 2004 report by the National Endowment for the Arts, found that not only is literary reading in America declining rapidly among all groups, but that the rate of decline has accelerated, especially among the young."]]></description>
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		<title>So Noted</title>
		<link>http://classtalk.info/?p=139</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The public schools have always been the friends of the people, and no other system has ever accomplished the good that they have. The different legislatures in the several states have long since decided this, in establishing public schools, that the rich and the poor, side by side, might attend, and receive the self-same instruction, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Wash(out)</title>
		<link>http://classtalk.info/?p=138</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I post the following with some trepidation, hoping that a future employer won't hold it against me and will understand what I'm saying and why I'm posting it. Hopefully, said future employer will see it as evidence of hard-won and valuable experience.]]></description>
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