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		<title>An International Diane Ravitch Moment?</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/12/an-international-diane-ravitch-moment/</link>
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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>Other Duties as Assigned: Go to Honduras</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all experiencing times that try educators’ souls as we struggle to make sense of some expert’s solution to fix education’s problems that were caused by some previous expert’s solution to fix education’s problems. ]]></description>
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		<title>Then There’s the Folks Who Like Their Schools</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/01/the-folks-who-like-their-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The answer isn’t to tear down our public schools that are working for the vast majority of students. The answer is to find those places where schools aren’t working and do something different. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;School Reform&#8221; Manifesto: The Reality Check</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/10/school-reform-manifesto-the-reality-check/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Corporate Model School Reformers issued a manifesto.  Like most manifestos, it’s simple and slick … and wrong.]]></description>
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		<title>What Does a Good School Look Like?</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/10/what-does-a-good-school-look-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LilysBlackboard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conversation about schools, educators and tests.  Education should be a priority, and we need to talk about it!]]></description>
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		<title>We Don&#8217;t Live in a Multiple Choice World</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/06/doing-something-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On the cardboard foundation of No Child Left, the house falls. Strong standards are something we can build a future on.]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny Bubbles</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/01/tiny-bubbles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They’re the kids who didn’t quite hit the cut score on the No Child Left tests the previous year. Or those that just barely hit it. The goal was to get off the Adequate Yearly Progress Shame List where her school had been placed because not enough of their students had hit the cut score]]></description>
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		<title>When the good news really isn’t&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2009/10/when-the-good-news-really-isn%e2%80%99t/</link>
		<comments>http://lilysblackboard.org/2009/10/when-the-good-news-really-isn%e2%80%99t/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often complain about the lack of “good news about schools” stories in the media.]]></description>
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