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		<title>These Educators Deserve a Movie Deal</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2012/02/these-educators-deserve-a-movie-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two stories to tell in Chester Upland School District in Pennsylvania.  One is a heroic story worthy of a book or movie deal. Chester Upland, a poor and predominantly minority district, is a long way from Hollywood, but it does have a star in Sara Ferguson.]]></description>
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		<title>Parent Involvement is Smart. Don’t Turn it Into Something Stupid</title>
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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>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>Frightening Children in Alabama</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/10/frightening-children-in-alabama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not understand deliberate cruelty.  I understand it exists.  I understand that those who practice it can often justify it as excusable and even noble.  But cruelty to a child?  This is beyond all understanding.]]></description>
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		<title>Boys and Girls, a Terrible Thing has Happened&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/09/1074/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In New York, it still took several seconds to register:  This was not an accident. First a report from the Pentagon.  Later, a plane crash in Pennsylvania. I got dressed and went to school.  ]]></description>
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		<title>The Goalie vs. Our Worst Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/06/the-goalie-vs-our-worst-nightmare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask yourself why the Koch Brothers care about whether or not a 2nd grade teacher has a union to advocate for a decent class size. They care because organized unions, especially education unions, advocate for broad middle-class public services and protections.]]></description>
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		<title>Three Main Things that Always Fail in Education</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/06/three-main-things-that-fail-in-education/</link>
		<comments>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/06/three-main-things-that-fail-in-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lilysblackboard.org/?p=894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate, hate, hate to argue with something that sounds reasonable because it puts you in the position of sounding unreasonable when you question what often seems like pure common sense, so I hate, hate, hate to say this, but…]]></description>
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