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    <title>Scott Walker for President 2016 - What Happens If Scott Walker Wins Is No Good at All - Esquire</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-16T21:45:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dear Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: That heinous future actually could happen if you don't get out of the Green Room and get the DNC off the stick here. I'm still not kidding. If the Democrats blow this one, and if it's proven that the DNC could have helped in any way and didn't, you should be fired before the sun goes down. In 1990, the DNC declined to help fully a congressional candidate named David Worley in Georgia. The Worley people were begging for money, for organizers, for a lifeline of any kind. Very little was forthcoming. Worley lost to Newt Gingrich by 978 votes. How would the subsequent 10 years have been different if Gingrich's political career had ended ignominiously in 1990? That's the kind of chance that you seem to be allowing to go a'glimmering in Wisconsin. Let Walker win, and Democrats not yet born will curse your name.]]></description>
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    <title>Congrats, New Grads! By the Way, You Don't Know Anything</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-16T20:28:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[11. Don't get confused, though: Unless you are actually poor, you are not actually poor.
I know I said "poor" in item #10, but I was being lazy. I'm sorry. What I really meant was "broke." Don't get some chip on your shoulder about how disenfranchised you are because all you have is a liberal arts degree and 100 Top Ramens. It will make you sound silly and careless. Some people have been systemically disadvantaged their entire lives and now they live in their cars and don't even have Bottom Ramen. Here's an easy way to tell the difference: If you got arrested, do you have someone that could bail you out of jail? If the answer is yes, then you are broke and not poor. "Poor" is not a game. You are "broke."]]></description>
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    <title>Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm's spy got caught red-shirted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-16T19:01:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What war on teachers would be complete without spies and enemy infiltrators? What's next -- drones? The problem for Warlord Rahm and Gen. J.C. Brizard is that their spy got nailed. ]]></description>
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    <title>School Tech Connect: Our Stupid Obsession With Teacher Evaluation, Part 954</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-16T00:59:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But in reality, the new assessments are going to be the same as the old assessments--- it's just that the instruction will officially be test prep, rather than test prep crammed into a pre-existing literature and writing curriculum.]]></description>
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    <title>TFA PTSD | Drinking the Kool-Aid</title>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The problem is so much less simple than it looked when I joined. After 3.5 years of college, I saw unbelievable injustice and I saw educational inequity as a root. I saw kids not getting the education they deserved, and I saw teachers as the interface between kids and their education… and while I didn’t say it (because even then I could smell the controversy), my idea of a solution came out in everything I thought, said, or wrote: Teachers are the providers of education and kids aren’t getting educated, so obviously we just need to find better teachers, train better teachers, BE better teachers. I guess I probably thought I’d found the ultimate gold-mine of Making A Difference.

Everything is so much more muddled and difficult than that. Reading more and learning more about this mess only brings more confusion and reveals more complexity. I agree with too much that I read and don’t disagree with anything.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New value-added assessments in the District, New York and elsewhere carry a whiff of Stalinist economic planning: secretive measures immune to review or logic. Wiggins said we have re-invented “the Russian wheat quotas of the 1950s. It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.”]]></description>
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    <title>Schools Matter: Opt-Out Parent in NJ: . . . the &quot;nice&quot; strategy to me nowhere</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-15T12:37:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/05/opt-out-parent-in-nj-nice-strategy-to.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The one thing that I have learned in the past 3 1/2 weeks of opting out is that when you stand up and say NO, people listen...]]></description>
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    <title>Bad News for TFA « Diane Ravitch's blog</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-15T00:52:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Evidence in the case shows that more than half of California’s interns are teaching in schools with 90-100% students of color compared to only 3% of interns in schools with the lowest population of students of color. Research also shows that graduates from alternative programs such as Teach For America and Troops To Teachers can be as effective as traditional route graduates, but that teachers still in training in those and other programs do not improve student achievement as much as fully prepared teachers who have completed their teacher training.]]></description>
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    <title>School Tech Connect: Houston, You've Got A Problem</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-14T20:54:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There are few activities in life with less value than the mass-testing of 8th graders. ]]></description>
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    <title>On Leaked E-Mails and The Eventual Uproar [Where I Call Joel Klein a Pirate] | The Jose Vilson</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-14T03:18:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[First, let me tell you how excited I was that the United Federation of Teachers FOILed Joel Klein’s e-mails from DOE. I’m much happier knowing that I wasn’t misjudging anything about him or his co-conspirators on any level. They really do come off like jerks, they really do spend ALL day on their Blackberries for no apparent reason, and they really do want to push the idea of charter schools to the detriment of actual public schools. I don’t mind a few charters here and there, but the corporatists crossed the line by making it the solution to the education’s ills (when they know it’s not).

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    <title>The fantasies driving school reform: A primer for education graduates - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post</title>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Policymakers, with a preconception that schools must be failing because the public sector and its employees must be corrupt, are not interested in these facts. As a result, we’ve wasted 15 years avoiding incremental improvement, and instead trying to upend a reasonably successful school system.]]></description>
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    <title>Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-12T14:18:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Happy Mother’s Day Mrs. Eileen Quinn.

Teachers you worked with your entire working career may soon be royally screwed if your son gets his way.

Governor Quinn’s mom wasn’t a teacher. But she was the secretary at Hinsdale High School for thirty years.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I resented the dozens of small ways the College Board impinged on the course. I resented the test prep, even as I minimized it (two weeks, at the end. One prep book that we rarely referred to). I resented the weirdness of some of the word problems. I resented the calculator, and the problems written for Texas Instruments.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-05-12T14:06:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The first thing I noticed was the chummy exchanges between the public officials in change of the New York City public school system and the top dogs of the charter leadership–the Wall Street hedge fund managers, the leader of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), the leader of the New York City Charter Center, and various others. It comes clear that there is a strong and concerted effort to hand over as much public space as possible to the charters. The charter leaders are not the poor and oppressed of New York City; they are the powerful and monied, and the public officials who are paid to protect and support the PUBLIC schools of New York City are working hand-in-glove to advance the interests of the privately-managed charters, not the public schools. You will also notice, in one of the emails, that the charters are very concerned to make sure that there is no cap on their executive compensation. Heaven forbid! It’s important that their leaders continue to pull down $400,000 a year to oversee a few small schools.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-05-12T02:57:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Natas.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today at the Ubuntu Developer Summit we had a session to plan out the next release of Edubuntu.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When asked by The Barna Group what words or phrases best describe Christianity, the top response among Americans ages 16-29 was “antihomosexual.” For a staggering 91 percent of non-Christians, this was the first word that came to their mind when asked about the Christian faith. The same was true for 80 percent of young churchgoers. (The next most common negative images? : “judgmental,” “hypocritical,” and “too involved in politics.”) ]]></description>
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    <title>Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » What’s Still Missing in American Education and How to Out-educate China?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-10T13:53:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/05/10/what%e2%80%99s-still-missing-in-american-education-and-how-to-out-educate-china/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over past few days, Chinese media and cyberspace have been taken over by a story that started with a few photos apparently taken by students using some kind of smart phone. The photos show a classroom full students hooked on IV tubes, a scene that may remind some readers of M*A*S*H. The students, sitting behind mountains of books, are studying while being fed with Amino Acid with IV. As it turned out, this is a classroom in one of the best schools in Hubei province and these high school seniors are preparing for their final exams. They are too busy to go to the clinic to receive their brain nutrition of performance enhancing treatment. So the school was thoughtful enough to bring the equipment to the classroom. For a mere 10 yuan (less than $2), a student can receive their dose to boost their test results.]]></description>
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    <title>Shanker Blog » The Weighting Game</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-09T15:40:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://shankerblog.org/?p=5764</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now, back to the original point: All of these issues also apply to teacher evaluations. You can say that value-added scores count for only 40 or 50 percent, but the effective weight might be totally different, depending both on how you incorporate those scores into the final evaluation score, as well as on how much variation there is in the other components. If, for example, a district can choose their own measures for 20 percent of a total evaluation score, and that district chooses a measure or measures that don’t vary much, then the effective weight of the other components will actually be higher than it is “on paper.” And the effective weight is the one that really matters.]]></description>
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    <title>Merge Records</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-09T14:58:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2012/05/merge-partners-with-the-southern-folklife-collection-at-unc/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Merge Records is excited to announce that we are partnering with the Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library to archive music, art, and ephemera from 23 years of releasing music we love. Beginning in 2013, the entire Merge archives will be catalogued and opened to the public courtesy of the SFC.]]></description>
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    <title>Bubble 2.0 - Charlie's Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-09T12:02:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/05/bubble-20.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am calling this a bubble economy in startup bullshit, and it's just about ready to pop; we are now at the stage of the shoe-shine boys offering stock tips, and if I had any money invested in hyperparasites like Zynga I'd be yanking the eject handle as hard as I could.]]></description>
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    <title>School-Standards Pushback - WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-09T11:53:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Common Core could take another hit Friday when the 23-member board of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group of more than 2,000 state lawmakers and business members who back limited government and free markets, among other conservative goals, is set to vote on a resolution to formally oppose the standards. The resolution was passed by the ALEC education task force in December.Model legislation often is drafted from the group's resolutions and taken by ALEC members to their state legislatures.]]></description>
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    <title>Google Plus Hangouts on Air feature now available to all users ~ Stephen's Web</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T20:36:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=58091</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By far and away the best thing about Google+ is the Hangout feature, essentially a way to have a videoconferencew with ten of your friends. ]]></description>
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    <title>Politicians: on teacher appreciation day, keep empty words to yourself! « Parents Across America</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T20:35:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://parentsacrossamerica.org/2012/05/politicians-on-teacher-appreciation-day-keep-yr-empty-words-to-yourself/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This week is the annual celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week. Politicians of every stripe and school superintendents everywhere will write letters and make proclamations stating how much they value the service and dedication of teachers everywhere. All of these words are empty and merely paying lip service to something they do not believe. By their actions, these ”leaders” have made it obvious that they neither appreciate, admire, respect nor comprehend the jobs of the people who spend their days with the nation’s children. Nor do they understand the first thing about the children in those classrooms.]]></description>
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    <title>Republicans Out Of My Scrotum! | jwz</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T20:11:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/05/republicans-out-of-my-scrotum/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have a friend* who is about to get a vasectomy, and it turns out, it's a ridiculously involved process, presumably because of Religionists.]]></description>
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    <title>Juniata seeks to quash subpoena | www.huntingdondailynews.com | The Daily News</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T18:28:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.huntingdondailynews.com/news/2012-05-08/Front_Page/Juniata_seeks_to_quash_subpoena.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Among the subpoenas expected to be discussed by Judge John Cleland at a pretrial hearing for former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky Wednesday is a defense subpoena sent to Juniata College. Juniata spokesman John Wall said the college is seeking to quash that subpoena.]]></description>
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    <title>The “Great Education Reform” Compromise of 2012 (and the benefit of being Commissioner of Education - Wait, What?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T17:56:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/05/08/the-great-education-reform-compromise-of-2012-and-the-benefit-of-being-commissioner-of-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So when teachers in your district get laid-off next fall or class sizes get bigger or your local property taxes go up – you can scratch your head and wonder how it is not a conflict of interest that even after the “Great Compromise of 2012,” Achievement First (the Commissioner’s “non-profit” charter school company) gets more new money than your entire school district.

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    <title>Nobody Seems to Understand What Jeff Bezos is Doing. Does He? | PandoDaily</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T17:47:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/05/nobody-seems-to-understand-what-jeff-bezos-is-doing-does-he/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Giving away the razor to make money on the blades is a well-known strategy. But giving away the razor and the blades in order to make money on a subscription loyalty program as a way to sell everything else? Is that Amazon’s real goal with the Kindle—is Amazon in the device business only to sell Prime subscriptions, which the company sees as a key accelerant for sales across the rest of its site? And if that’s the case, how well is that circuitous business model working out? Is the Kindle helping to sell Prime? And are those Kindle-fueled Prime subscriptions moving more sales across the rest of the company’s inventory?]]></description>
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    <title>Thinking about Teacher Appreciation Day. « Fred Klonsky</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T15:09:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/thinking-about-teacher-appreciation-day/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Obama has decided to declare this week National Charter School Week.

The guy sure knows how to appreciate teachers. I haven’t felt so appreciated since he announced support for firing all the union teachers in Central Falls, Rhode Island.]]></description>
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    <title>Commitment to Public Education Trumps National “Education Reform” Movement in Connecticut - Wait, What?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T14:53:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/05/08/commitment-to-public-education-trumps-national-education-reform-movement-in-connecticut/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But the bottom line,  Michelle Rhee, Achievement First, ConnCAN elitists who will have spent upwards of $2 million on their lobby effort to sweep in and take over Connecticut’s education system, with the help of Governor Malloy, have failed.

And now a number of these groups will appropriate face investigations and potential penalties for their illegal lobbying activities.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/maurice-sendak-rip/">
    <title>Maurice Sendak. RIP. « Fred Klonsky</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T14:36:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/maurice-sendak-rip/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go – we’ll eat you up – we love you so!”]]></description>
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    <title>Why Divide Your Thanks, Mr. President? - Practical Theory</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-08T12:19:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1338-Why-Divide-Your-Thanks,-Mr.-President.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This year, you chose National Teacher Appreciation Week as the week you also chose to declare as National Charter School Week. 

Why would you do that, Mr. President?

I've wracked my brain all night long trying to figure out why. It's not like you didn't know it was National Teacher Appreciation Week - after all, Secretary Duncan posted about it on the Department of Education blog. So why conflate the two, Mr. President?
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    <title>Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Teacher Appreciation Week? Forget it...</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-07T23:53:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2012/05/teacher-appreciation-week-forget-it.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Obama proclaims it, "Nat'l Charter School Week. 
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    <title>Finally, The Truth About Internships | Providence Daily Dose</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-07T15:44:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://providencedailydose.com/2012/05/07/finally-the-truth-about-internships/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The unpaid internship has become a modern form of slave labor and is completely warping the economy. The idea that it will help you “get your foot in the door” rarely pans out, and the slot that was once called an entry level job, is now held permanently by unpaid interns who cycle in and out. The Sunday New York Times (5.6.12) reports that, given the terrible job market, young grads feel they have little choice, but this assumes a person can live in New York City for a year with no income — guess who that describes. But in “Jobs Few, Grads Flock to Unpaid Internships” we are reminded that the United States Department of Labor has rules and regulations defining internships.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/with-arne-down-the-rabbit-hole/">
    <title>With Arne down the rabbit hole. « Fred Klonsky</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-07T15:44:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/with-arne-down-the-rabbit-hole/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Reading Arne Duncan’s article in the Huffngton Post this morning was like reading Alice Down the Rabbit Hole.

Have the last three years been just a fantasy, a dream from which I will awake?]]></description>
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    <title>Eschaton: The Whedon Decade</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-07T03:26:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/05/whedon-decade.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Joss Whedon finally has a big commercial success with The Avengers.

Could a massive budget Dr. Horrible feature film be next?]]></description>
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    <title>Yong Zhao Interview: Will the Common Core Create World-Class Learners? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-06T14:02:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/05/yong_zhao_common_core.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yong Zhao: It's always dangerous to predict the future. But if history is any indication, judging from the accomplishment of NCLB and Race-to-the Top, I would say that five years from now, American education will still be said to be broken and obsolete. We will find out that the Common Core Standards, after billions of dollars, millions of hours of teacher time, and numerous PD sessions, alignment task forces, is not the cure to American's education ill. Worse yet, we will likely have most of nation's schools teaching to the common tests aligned with the Common Core. As a result, we will see a further narrowing of the curriculum and educational experiences. Whatever innovative teaching that has not been completely lost in the schools may finally be gone. And then we will have a nation of students, teachers, and schools who are compliant with the Common Core Standards, but we may not have much else left.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://idealistpropaganda.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-you-see-h.html">
    <title>WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?: why A you see H</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-05T05:18:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://idealistpropaganda.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-you-see-h.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have no real words to share with the general public, it's personal.

But I will share these rare, favorite, silly, early images that remind me of Adam and some of the incredible fun I've had with him and the boys, and creative moments the day after they played me "Check Your Head" we shared back then, a few that have never been seen before.
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    <title>Eschaton: Culture Of Poverty</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-04T19:43:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/05/culture-of-poverty.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think diminished expectations combined with a bit of nominal illusion have led people to think that $67,000 is crazy money for a starting teacher salary. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but nobody thought it was crazy money back then, just good money.]]></description>
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    <title>Pineapplegate: The Gift That Keeps on Giving « Diane Ravitch's blog</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-04T19:25:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dianeravitch.net/2012/05/04/pineapplegate-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This justification from Pearson comes two days after Commissioner John King canned the pineapple.  It shows that the Pineapple and the Harewas nationally-normed ten years ago – when the Stanford 10 was standardized.]]></description>
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    <title>Principal Rightly Slams Testing-Company Junk that Masquerades as Standardized Teting « GFBrandenburg's Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-04T16:57:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/principal-rightly-slams-testing-company-junk-that-masquerades-as-standardized-teting/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Among other things, the crisp writing here explains in detail why this principal’s criticisms of the overall poor quality of the test itself, seemed so … vague. The reason is that IF SHE HAD TRIED TO BRING THIS TO ANYBODY’S ATTENTION IN ANY WAY BY COPYING DOWN OR PHOTOCOPYING OR MENTIONING OR DISCUSSING ANY CONTENT OF ANY QUESTION IS A VIOLATION OF ALL KINDS OF LAWS, RULES, RULINGS, AND SO ON. PEOPLE DO GET FIRED FOR THIS, AND FINED, AND AT LEAST THREATENED WITH JAIL.]]></description>
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    <title>Follow up on why Publicness/Privateness of Charter Schools Matters « School Finance 101</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-04T15:07:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/follow-up-on-why-publicnessprivateness-of-charter-schools-matters/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My thinking changed when I spoke at a workshop for charter school attorneys. Several attorneys insisted that they were not beholden to federal constitutional and statutory provisions. They cited the Ninth Circuit’s Caviness decision, in which the Ninth Circuit held that a charter school was not a state actor with respect to employment issues. These attorneys insisted that the same logic applied to student issues as well.]]></description>
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    <title>New York State: Release the tests! « JD2718</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-04T12:44:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/new-york-state-release-the-tests/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Apparently it involves angles inside a parallelogram, or angles formed when a third line crosses two parallel lines. How hard are parallelogram questions? Not so hard. If you have studied them. But NY State puts out a very specific roadmap of stuff to teach. Grade by grade. And there’s so much in there, most schools stick pretty close to it, so that the kids will be familiar with everything on the test. Extra topics that are due to be taught in 8th grade or 9th grade? 7th grade teachers are unlikely to add future topics, as they scramble to get through the too many topics NYS has placed in 7th grade.]]></description>
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    <title>An Urban Teacher's Education: When It Rains, It Pours</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-04T03:30:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[3) Low-income schools experience drastic changes every year. This is especially true in the wake of NCLB, when every district is trying something new all the time in the hope of raising test scores. However, real solutions take real time to work. And changes in staff, curriculum, instruction, and school leadership are more harmful than helpful when they happen so regularly. Few people outside of schools understand exactly how destructive these changes are.]]></description>
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    <title>Stay at Stove Dad: Polenta! Polenta! Polenta!</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-04T03:02:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have a new love in the kitchen, and its name is polenta. For years, I’ve seen it on restaurant menus and heard it talked about from everyone from foodies to my own mother (who, when she would taste it on a plate while eating out, would sometimes get mixed up and say, “these mashed potatoes aren’t real”), but I’ve never tried to make it at home, until recently.]]></description>
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    <title>The NYPD May Day siege - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-03T18:40:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/2012/05/03/the_nypd_may_day_siege/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Those of us who have been inspired by Occupy over the past year, those who see the importance of reclaiming and repurposing space (for public use that is not commerce), and who see the necessity of manifesting in the streets, are not fizzling or losing momentum. We are, however, being trampled, pushed, threatened and dispersed at every turn by well-armed, militarized police forces who once again made clear: We are not allowed to assemble on our own terms in this country.]]></description>
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    <title>Who's Killing Philly Public Schools? | Philadelphia City Paper | 05/03/2012</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-03T18:18:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.citypaper.net/news/2012-05-03-whos-killing-philly-public-schools.html?page=4&amp;c=y</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The leadership of Philadelphia," says Hornbeck, "ought to gather the leadership of not only of big districts but of rural areas that are also being disadvantaged by the state, and say to Harrisburg, 'We're just not going to take it anymore.' Instead, what's happening again is a tucking of tails, and saying, 'This is our fault here in Philadelphia. We're sorry, Harrisburg.'"]]></description>
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    <title>The Clueless Wall Street Elite - Hullabaloo</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-03T18:05:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/clueless-wall-street-elite-by.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's hard to overstate the degree to which the top 0.1% in this country is completely disconnected from the experience of the broader public, to the extent that it's difficult to tell the difference between cloistered cluelessness and rank sociopathy. One doesn't really get a grasp of how profound the problem is unless one sees the statistics. They really have no clue. I did focus groups a while back with left-leaning independent voters; when asked about Wall Street, their rhetoric became violent and even murderous at times. And it's not surprising: when men like Edward Conard open their mouths, it's difficult to maintain restraint. One never knows if one is dealing with a purely evil sociopath, or with someone who has been so sheltered by their wealth as to not really understand the human experience anymore.]]></description>
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    <title>Jersey Jazzman: The Kids Are Alright</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-03T17:58:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2012/05/kids-are-alright.html</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How is it that an 18-year-old kid from West Windsor gets this, but all of these well-heeled reformies don't? Is he a racist for pointing out that he is growing up in a completely different environment from kids in the inner-cities, and maybe, just maybe, that might have something to do with academic achievement? Is he "accepting the status quo"? Does he not believe "all children can learn"? Or is he smart yet still unjaded enough to describe the most obvious thing in the world?]]></description>
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    <title>Our Amish Neighbor was a Browns’ Fan | TV ASYLUM</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-02T22:50:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tvasylum.com/blog/2012/05/02/our-amish-neighbor-was-a-browns-fan/</link>
    <dc:creator>tom.hoffman</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The way my dad welcomed Umry The Brown’s Fan taught me something about hospitality (especially since we are Steelers fans). Most of the time I’d have rather just watched that game with my dad, and knowing my dad, he would have rather just watched it with me.]]></description>
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