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		<title>Common Education Standards for 46 States</title>
		<link>http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/06/02/common-education-standards-for-46-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of success in American schools,&#8221; as reported in the Post. A tad bit more of the article&#8230; &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nation&#8217;s Report Card&#8230; On the right track?!?</title>
		<link>http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/05/04/nations-report-card-on-the-right-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 00:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Washington Post, Margaret Spellings mildly praised the progress created by NCLB. That &#8220;Student achievement results from the Nation&#8217;s Report Card published last week show that we are on the right track. Since enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, which called for all students to be on grade level in reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mad Hatter Educator</title>
		<link>http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/04/29/mad-hatter-educator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that follow this blog, this topic of &#8220;madness&#8221; among educators is one that I&#8217;ve commented on frequently outside of this blog.  Thus those that follow me in academia will know of this subject: The propensity of &#8220;mad&#8221; tendencies, aka insanity, among educators. Carroll&#8217;s &#8220;Mad Hatter&#8221; character was so aptly nicknamed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama puts spotlight on education&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/02/25/obama-puts-spotlight-on-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-na-obama-education25-2009feb25,0,2871040.story?track=rss Los Angeles Times, by Frank James &#8220;Right now, three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require more than a high school diploma,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;And yet, just over half of our citizens have that level of education. We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. And half of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case Against Nationalized Standards: A Response to Randi Weingarten</title>
		<link>http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/02/20/the-case-against-nationalize-standards-a-response-to-randi-weingarten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/15/AR2009021501257.html Author: Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT &#8220;The countries that consistently outperform the United States on international assessments all have national standards, with core curriculum, assessments and time for professional development for teachers based on those standards&#8230; But there is little outrage over the uneven patchwork of academic standards for students in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eliminating Age-based Grade Levels: The next great trend</title>
		<link>http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/01/01/eliminating-age-based-grade-levels-the-next-trend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Denver Post 12/21/2008 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_11280071 Educators and Administrators are watching intently how this next experiement upon learning methods will effect graduation rates and the meeting of standards.  This experiment by the Adams 50 district will remove age-based, developmental-based, grade levels and exchanged them for academic, achievement-based levels.  At first glance this could be a [...]]]></description>
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