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		<title>Outcomes and results matter: But what&#8217;s with all the testing?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post at Raining Acorns, a Pennsylvania parent records what happens in March school testing season. She outlines the impact on the school schedule and the disruption to learning. Is it all worth it? Why all this time on test? Yong Zhao argues that this imposition of high stakes testing is more than...]]></description>
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		<title>NPR and Me</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before the break there was a message on the head&#8217;s listserve from Myra McGovern of NAIS. NPR journalist Tovia Smith was working on a story about what schools are doing to relieve the growing pressures and stresses on students and was looking for input. This happens to be a topic close to my heart....]]></description>
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		<title>A Path to Success: Talents. Challenges. Problems</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A PATH TO COLLEGE, CAREER AND CIVIC SUCCESS Talents, when revealed, need to be celebrated. Challenges, when discovered, need to be addressed. Problems, when they arise, need to be solved. This is never so true as when we are talking about our children — their health, their growth, their education and their development. It is...]]></description>
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		<title>Baby, bathwater, freshwater</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Bower teaches in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. And he is on a personal mission. His blog For the Love of Learning takes on the traditional model of education and challenges its assumptions and practices. His latest post is a passionate call for action for educators everywhere. It opens with Ken Robinson&#8217;s latest TEDTalk (see...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What ails thee Jock?&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you have probably been sent a link to, or have even read, Playing to Learn – Susan Engel’s oped in the NYTimes last week. In addition to the fluttering  in my twittersphere, I received notice from a teacher, an alumna, and an administrator at PDS as well as the head of a neighboring...]]></description>
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