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		<title>Parent Involvement is Smart. Don’t Turn it Into Something Stupid</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2012/01/parent-involvement-is-smart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had had a chance to speak to the elected officials in Idaho.  That I know of, they were not on drugs or drinking heavily when in answer to state legislation requiring incentives for teacher performance, some Idaho school districts came up with this head smacker: A teacher’s pay will be based on how many parents show up to parent-teacher conferences.]]></description>
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		<title>Lily On Assignment With CNN&#8217;s Sanjay Gupta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of schools across the country are in tremendous need of repair, remodeling, or replacement. CNN&#8217;s Sanjay Gupta tours a Pennsylvania public school with Lily Eskelsen and learns firsthand how indoor air quality issues affect student success. Schools like this one fall woefully short in providing a minimum environment for effective teaching and learning. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An International Diane Ravitch Moment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than ten long, empty, intellectually dry and dishonest years, we’ve lived under the insanity of No Child Left Untested. (Someone told me not to be so negative. Trust me. I’m holding back.) Children, especially poor children, have been subjected to a corporate “reform” mentality of pass/fail by making their quota of test score points on some standardized garbage never designed to gauge anything more delicately complex than a child’s understanding of where the comma goes.]]></description>
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		<title>And Now, About Those Mega-Rich Alleged Job Creators…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any second-grader could do the math. The rich have been getting richer, and as tax breaks for big business and big wealth have exploded beyond reason, jobs here have been shrinking, not growing.]]></description>
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		<title>American Education Week: Creating Amazing Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/11/american-education-week-creating-amazing-public-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy American Education Week. In honor of the week-long celebration, I was asked to focus my remarks this week on my “vision” for an amazing public school system. Oh my.]]></description>
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		<title>We Are All Ohio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am Ohio today. Ok, I’m in Ohio, but I didn’t forget the preposition. I am Ohio today. All across the country good people who work for American public schools, colleges and universities are celebrating. Firefighters are celebrating. Police officers are celebrating. This is an historic victory.]]></description>
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		<title>The NEA, Your Kids&#8217; School and the Middle Seat</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/10/the-nea-your-kids-school-and-the-middle-seat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I travel a lot these days meeting with teachers and support staff and principals and parents and the press and anyone anywhere who wants to join hands and make good things happen for kids. I was on my way to Wichita to speak at a conference and the nice man in the middle seat started a nice conversation.]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: Overcoming</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/10/martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-overcoming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told my class that I was born the year a little boy named Emmet Till died.  Emmet Till was from Chicago and was visiting his uncle in Mississippi for the summer.  He was only fourteen years old when he was lynched for being sassy to a white woman in a store.]]></description>
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