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		<title>Did You Do It On Purpose?</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/01/did-you-do-it-on-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the purpose we’re trying to achieve in a public school?  As a Utah teacher, I can stretch a dollar until you can see through it.  Our state legislature has achieved its purpose:  Spend as little as possible on public schools.]]></description>
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		<title>Closing What Gaps?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently honored to speak into a microphone in a Congressional hearing room and give my opinions about something called The Achievement Gap. It is a heady thing to be asked to give your opinion. Into a microphone. With people taking notes. In seven minutes. Or less. I am not a researcher. I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspected it in my 6th grade class when the neighborhood was beginning to change faces and change accents.  I saw it when sitting next to Brian and Jason and Cindy were Alfredo and Marcos and Fabiola]]></description>
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		<title>ESP – Extraordinary Special Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are proud professionals. So I want to congratulate the guy with the big office and the big title, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, for doing what no other Secretary of Education has done before him. On his listening tour of America’s schools where he has gathered groups of teachers and groups of school board members and groups of administrators, he insisted on a special gathering of Education Support Professionals to hear what they had to say.]]></description>
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		<title>Does Preschool Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just returned from taping a panel discussion, hosted by one of my favorite reporters, Ray Suarez, for a show called Destination Casa Blanca – Destination White House.]]></description>
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		<title>Miss Lily, the Music Lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past five years, I've been a volunteer in Miss Marilyn's class here in DC. It's not so much for the kids, I'll admit.  I need a kid fix or it's hard to get through too many weeks.]]></description>
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		<title>You have to go around the block to hear the word on the street</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, how could I take that wrong?  I kind of sort of think I know what he meant. I’ve worked in public schools and for public schools for a long time.  It’s been my block.  My neighborhood.]]></description>
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		<title>When the good news really isn’t&#8230;</title>
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		<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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