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		<title>Core Knowledge Quiz: Ancient Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter sent a telegraph to his sponsor announcing he had discovered an undisturbed tomb in Egypt&#8217;s Valley of the Kings.  His discovery of Tutankhamun&#8217;s tomb stunned the world and revolutionized our understanding of Ancient Egypt.  Children encounter Egypt and other ancient civilizations in the Core Knowledge Sequence beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alter’s Ego</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/05/alters-ego/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Alter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merit pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public School Insights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A suggestion by Claus Von Zastrow of Public School Insights that pundits like Jonathan Alter who write about education be subject to performance pay attracted the notice of Alter, who has been mixing it up with commenters to the post.  It started when Von Zastrow took issue with Alter&#8217;s KIPP cheerleading and broad brush take on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Caught California Being Good!</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/05/i-caught-california-being-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter caps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test scores]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the oldest trick in the elementary school classroom management book:  using positive reinforcement to get children to behave in the hope of earning a reward or recognition.  When it&#8217;s time to clean up before lunch the teacher says, &#8220;Let&#8217;s see who&#8217;s ready to line up first.  I&#8217;m looking to see who has their desk cleaned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“And Thank You for Choosing Harvard University!”</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/03/and-thank-you-for-choosing-harvard-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In most sectors of our economy, customer focus is paramount, as it should be in education, too. Customer focus could yield a more student-centric system through the development and dissemination of user-friendly “truth-in-education” information that helps students make “best-fit” choices regarding which education provider to select based on customer preferences such as: academic quality, price, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Job!  Go Sit on the Bench</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arne Duncan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[math coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jay Mathews thinks Arne Duncan shouldn&#8217;t be the Secretary of Education.  In fact, he looks at recent Ed Secys Bill Bennett, Rod Paige, Dick Riley, Margaret Spellings and Duncan and asks why do we have the job at all? 
Their best work for kids, in my view, happened when they were NOT education secretary. So let&#8217;s abolish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein on the Fritz</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/02/einstein-on-the-fritz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interacting with Baby Einstein DVDs may not make your baby smarter. But interacting with Dan Willingham will make you smarter about the claims marketers make on behalf of educational products.  Dan&#8217;s take on the Baby Einstein flap is up at the Washington Post&#8217;s Answer Sheet blog.  &#8221;Many parents already believe that visual stimulation and classical music (which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Teacher Ed Should Look Like</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/02/what-teacher-ed-should-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Engel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Teacher education programs should be selective, rigorous&#8230;.and free, argues Susan Engel.  In a New York Times op-ed the psychologist and director of the teaching program at Williams College writes that admission to teacher ed programs should include &#8220;a stipend for the first three years of teaching in a public school.&#8221; 
Once we have a better pool of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Knowledge Newsletter</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/01/common-knowledge-newsletter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Common Knowledge newsletter, which digests the news about curriculum and teaching, education policy and other subjects of interest to the Core Knowedge community, is published each Friday during the school year.  Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s newsletter. To subscribe and receive Common Knowledge via email, click here.
Core Knowledge
E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy
City Journal
If the Obama administration truly wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental [Dis]engagement</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/31/parental-disengagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Middle school teacher Mrs. Bluebird loves PowerSchool, her district&#8217;s online grading system.  It lets her update students&#8217; grades from home, run progress reports and all kinds of other tricks.   &#8220;Parents can check grades any time of the night or day, see that work is missing, and can even get grade updates emailed to them,&#8221; she writes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Slumdog Ate My Homework</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/30/the-slumdog-ate-my-homework/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The two child stars of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire are in danger of losing a trust fund set up by the movie&#8217;s producers because they&#8217;re not regularly attending school.  The parents of 10-year-old Rubina Ali and 11-year-old Azhar Mohammed Ismail blame the absences on deaths in the family and other problems.  But the two are reportedly skipping class [...]]]></description>
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