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		<title>More Failing,  Fewer Failures, Greater Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The November Educational Leadership is devoted to the topic of grading. It includes an article by Alfie Kohn an expanded version of which you can read here: The Case Against Grades. I&#8217;ve given grades. For years I worried about how to get a system right, tried to focus students and their parents on the learning...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Embrace your inner weirdness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 01:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A parent recently sent along this article: Why geeks make better adults than the in-crowd.  The article draws it&#8217;s lead from Alexandra Robbins  book The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. While there is something of a defensive, passive-aggressive revenge fantasy to the tone, it is undoubtedly true that conforming to the conventional as a way...]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather like how I&#8217;m quoted in Saturday&#8217;s  Poughkeepsie Journal &#8220;Diversity is a core value embodied in the school&#8217;s mission,&#8221; said Josie Holford, the head of the school. &#8220;Respect for diversity and openness to difference is a source of strength and a means of growth and speaks to who we are as a school. In striving...]]></description>
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		<title>Connections: How good ideas happen to good minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coffee houses of the Enlightenment; the  Paris salons of Modernism  &#8211; two examples of the spaces conducive to innovation and new ideas. Here&#8217;s Steven Johnson on how good ideas happen to good minds and how they are incubated over time  and in spaces where  intellectual diversity thrives and connection happens. Could classrooms be like...]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Madness on the Race to Nowhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague at a nearby school sent me this link to the NYTimes &#8211; just the latest bulletin from a world gone mad with narrow definitions of achievement and success. Test prep for pre-school no less. And a real moneymaker for the lucrative (and unregulated) test prep industry. Tips for the Admissions test – to...]]></description>
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