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		<title>&#8220;If a school fulfills its mission there must be constant evolution&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is quite possible that the assigning of grades to school children and college students as a kind of reward or punishment is useless or worse&#8230; I&#8217;ve discovered an absolute treasure trove of fascinating material: Popular Science has put its entire 137 year archive on line. The quotation above is from Examinations, Grades and Credits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous praise</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good reminder about how not to praise from Stephen Currie in a recent post to the PDS Math Guy Blog. It&#8217;s all to do with the effort effect and how to talk to kids about their work. Researcher Carol Dweck&#8217;s work has shown that  praise for being smart is a great demotivator. Here are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Madness on the Race to Nowhere</title>
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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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		<title>Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to this podcast interview with Clayton Christensen &#8211; one of the authors of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns - A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator&#8217;s Dilemma and The Innovator&#8217;s Solution.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaXmAmj1nb8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6]]]></description>
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		<title>The 30 second solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I want the bike,&#8221; &#8220;No. You can&#8217;t have it.&#8221; A problem negotiated and solved. Friendship maintained, feelings expressed and managed, resource shared, compromise reached, peace maintained, fairness asserted, inequality addressed and crisis averted. All in less than thirty seconds. I saw all this happen yesterday in a thirty second exchange on the playground. It’s the [...]]]></description>
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