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		<title>Stop Patching Education!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle and a forty-year veteran math teacher. This is the first in a series of rants from a frustrated educational writer. At the intersection of politics and education the refrain is always the same. In a recent flurry of solutions for the plight of education in America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignite ‘14 to Feature Turnaround Principals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your school currently in ‘turnaround mode’? For all but a very few high-performing schools the answer is a resounding yes. Schools are in the center of a vortex consisting of three major, long-term change initiatives; 1) new, higher standards with accompanying assessments and accountability measures, 2) new teacher evaluation systems, which include data from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a place for boredom in education?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle In 2014 does all learning have to be entertaining? In a recent Slate article Konstantin Kakaes, a Schwartz Scholar at the New America Foundation, argues that is not necessarily the case. In response to an editorial in the New York Times Mr. Kakaes, strikes a blow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PISA Results: Good, Bad and Ugly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle The latest numbers from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) have been released and not surprisingly the handwringing began before the ink was dry. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan used the word “stagnation” in his appraisal. Others were even more pessimistic. On the surface the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Schools Need a &#8216;Support Report?&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article “If Schools Issue Report Cards, Should Students Issue Support Cards?” Kent Pekel of the Search Institute reminds school leaders that “by June, our nation’s elementary and secondary schools will have cumulatively issued more than 100 million of those report cards, each of which will describe and evaluate how well students are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than just numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart A. Singer, Author of The Algebra Miracle Perhaps because I am a former math teacher I cannot help myself. Maybe my extensive coaching background is what makes it even more compelling. Regardless of the precise motivator the fundamental conclusion seems so obvious. Education needs to utilize data analysis more effectively. Stats are bursting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attendance is a Two Sided Affair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle This is the second of three posts on student attendance and classroom disruptions from the perspective of the classroom teacher. Part three will address the issue of field trips and attendance. Sometimes teacher training must take a backseat. In an excellent three-part series Mel Riddile created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education is a True Team Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle While some people might dismiss the importance of creating the proper mindset within a school’s faculty as critical for improving academic success, the outcome of this year’s World Series may help change that misperception. That victory by the Boston Red Sox was good for baseball. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hidden Attendance Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle This is the first of three posts on student attendance and classroom disruptions from the perspective of the classroom teacher. Part two will address the issue out-of-school teacher training and the third will discuss field trips. Some attendance problems are self-inflicted. In an excellent three-part series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Faculty Meetings Time Well Spent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle If Charles Dickens had spent a few decades attending faculty meetings, he might have written: “They were the best of times; they were the worst of times”. Certainly during my career I experienced both. Not all meetings are created equal In a recent post Mel Riddile explained [...]]]></description>
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