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		<title>“Infantilizing Our Kids Into Incompetence”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free range kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helicopter parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parental involvement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new revolution is under way, according to the cover story of the latest Time Magazine.  It&#8217;s aimed at rolling back &#8220;the almost comical overprotectiveness and overinvestment of moms and dads.&#8221;    Call it slow parenting, simplicity parenting, free-range parenting, the magazine notes, but the message is the same: &#8220;Less is more; hovering is dangerous; failure is fruitful. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/FNSNqNoL-ac/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/18/required-reading-35/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weekly Roundup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8220;Blog About This&#8221; list is growing like kudzu, so in the interest of time&#8230;.
Jay Greene &#8220;can’t understand the enthusiasm of education reformers for national standards and testing.&#8221;  Jay sees plenty of room for mischief.  I&#8217;m inclined to agree.  However, if all we end up with is national testing that allows apples-to-apples comparisons of students from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Say Can You C.E.?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/17/oh-say-can-you-c-e/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[b.c.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Missouri school district has run afoul of some parents for teaching children to identify when historical events occurred by the designations &#8221;C.E.&#8221; (Common Era) and &#8220;B.C.E.&#8221; (Before Common Era) in addition to the traditional B.C. and A.D.   The numbers don&#8217;t change one way or the other.  It&#8217;s equally accurate to say Julius Caesar was murdered in 44 B.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neologism Watch</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/17/neologism-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New Oxford Dictionary has named &#8220;unfriend&#8221; as the 2009 Word of the Year. 
Unfriend (v.)  The act of &#8220;remov[ing] someone as a &#8216;friend&#8217; on a social networking site such as Facebook.&#8221;
An unlovely word, unfriend (wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;defriend&#8221; be more accurate?) beat out other tech terms for Word of the Year, including sexting, hashtag, and intexticated&#8211;defined as driving while distracted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Core Knowledge Quiz: Springsteen Study Guide Edition</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/17/core-knowledge-quiz-springsteen-study-guide-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge Quiz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Springsteen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Cities]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=3769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you’re 60-years-old and living on the road it’s easy to get disoriented.  Surely that explains why Bruce Springsteen shouted out “Hello, Ohio!” to the crowd at the Auburn Hills Palace in Michigan last Friday.  He mistakenly referred to the Buckeye State from the stage several times before one of his bandmates set him straight.  Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Blogger Named to Common Standards Panel</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/jN2DchHFgj0/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/16/ed-blogger-named-to-common-standards-panel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A name familiar in edublog circles will serve on the newly announced “work groups” charged with developing K-12 standards in English Language Arts and math.  Diana Senechal, who contributes to the Core Knowledge Blog and pinch-hits at Joanne Jacobs&#8217; blog has been named to the panel authoring the ELA standards.  Matt Davis, who along with Souzanne Wright is leading the development of the Core Knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress to Consider Expanding Troops to Teachers Program</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/LefX8Gpzjtw/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/16/congress-to-consider-expanding-troops-to-teachers-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under a bill pending in Congress, 98% of U.S. schools would be eligible to hire retiring military personnel who will then be trained as educators under the federal “Troops to Teachers” program, McClatchy Newspapers reports:
As currently designed, the program offers troops up to $5,000 to help them pay for their education. And then they can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Meeping Kidding Me?</title>
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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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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>Winston Churchill, Developing Writer</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/2YPhsjozdso/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/12/winston-churchill-developing-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender.
A computerized program aimed at assessing student writing skills for English &#8220;A levels&#8221; deems passages by Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway and other titans of prose lacking.  Churchill&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give It Away</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/12/give-it-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grading policies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tout le blogosphere is high dudgeon over a North Carolina middle school fundraiser offering an extra 20 points on two tests for a $20 donation.  All of those schools that have instituted &#8220;No Grade Below 50&#8243; policies must be kicking themselves for leaving money on the table.
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