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		<title>Lacking Accountability, Doing Just Fine</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4493/lacking-accountability-doing-just-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encouraging Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Op/eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity and imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experienced voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning styles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sidney Trubowitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test scores]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of more chiding because I find encouraging words from a teacher &#8211; who may belong to a union &#8211; I am suggesting you read Lacking Accountability, Doing Just Fine, A Teacher&#8217;s First Classroom&#8211;50 Years Ago, by Sidney Trubowitz.

[The] persistent soundings about accountability and test results have caused me to look back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Around, and around they go&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common norms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Child Left Behind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Hess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Week blogger Rick Hess writes about the latest round of education reform and where the players are in their thinking &#8211; now:
Why Diane and Duncan Are Making the Same Mistake.
Diane [Ravitch] is now making the same mistake, in reverse, that she and so many school choice and accountability enthusiasts made in the 1990s (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts Lay Out Vision for Future Assessments</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4337/experts-lay-out-vision-for-future-assessments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCSSO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college and career readiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council of Chief State School Officers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiple-choice tests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Week&#8217;s site has another piece on the future of education, this one on assessements:

Led by Stanford University professor Linda Darling-Hammond, a panel of experts outlined a comprehensive system that includes summative and formative tests of higher-order thinking skills, reflecting a marketplace that they say places increasing value on such skills.
They urged a move away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Bill Tries to Kill High School Exit Exam</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4187/education-week-alaska-bill-tries-to-kill-high-school-exit-exam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/4187/education-week-alaska-bill-tries-to-kill-high-school-exit-exam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AK State Board of Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaska education news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exit exams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school diploma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized test]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As educational reform moves forward we see more reality based actions in the states:

A high school exit exam is keeping hundreds of Alaska students from earning diplomas and jobs for which they&#8217;re otherwise qualified, proponents of repealing the test told a state Senate committee Friday.
Educators and parents from around the state testifying in support of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standardized Tests</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3912/standardized-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News-Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Op/eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competition in education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal opportunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Goldberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature of education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Child Left Behind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people system]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Lamaron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of an article from December caught my eye, &#8220;Race to the Top&#8221; a short run to failure. But the subtitle piqued my interest, Obama&#8217;s new education plan is inherently flawed in its ignorance of reality and the factors influencing the lackluster performance of our schools.
So, food for thought on standardized tests from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standards &#8211; Not So Incontrovertible After All</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3996/standards-not-so-incontrovertible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3996/standards-not-so-incontrovertible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News-Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accoutnability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-stakes testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another Education Week piece is by Alfie Kohn, who makes some core points against standards which homeschoolers should be able to identify with.

Commentary
Debunking the Case for National Standards
By Alfie Kohn
I keep thinking it can’t get much worse, and then it does. Throughout the 1990s, one state after another adopted prescriptive education standards enforced by frequent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common-Standards &#8211; Incontrovertible Logic?</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3994/common-standards-incontrovertible-logic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3994/common-standards-incontrovertible-logic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News-Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core State Standards Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common-Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Week]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sean Cavanagh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Education Week published a couple different takes on the standards debate. Here is the incontrovertible logic:

U.S. Common-Standards Push Bares Unsettled Issues
Familiar Themes Emerge in Resurgent Debate
By Sean Cavanagh
It is one of the simplest ideas in American education&#8211;and one of the most confounding: Elected officials and educators have been talking about establishing national, or common, academic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Like Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3917/more-like-homeschooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical thinkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[J Richard Suchman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[More like Homeschooling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Education Series]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[problem solvers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sit-n-get kind of instruction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This sounds like what homeschoolers have known, valued and argued for more than a couple decades:

&#8220;In my mind the gold standard is when a kid comes up with a question on their own that they are interested in learning about &#8211; self-generated and they&#8217;re passionate about it.  And they figure out and design an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Research</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3903/education-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3903/education-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research-Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debra Viadero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education laboratories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educational research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal education research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[importance of parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[large institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[randomized controlled trials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research that supports families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to say exactly what the direct effect on homeschooling the current push for more school data will have but the organizational power and money behind the effort says all parents should watch closely. An article published by Education Week gives us a look into the workings and thinking of eductional research: 

New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race to the Top Final Application Released</title>
		<link>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3892/race-to-the-top-final-application-released/</link>
		<comments>http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3892/race-to-the-top-final-application-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Gregoire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal grants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russ Dondero]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[State lawmakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing directly impacting homeschoolers yet, but.. But what really?
There are powerful forces at play with a vested interest in the institution of education. Couple calls for legislative reform with the common standards initiative, mix it up with the mad dash for the money, and homeschoolers can not afford to ignore these reforms, panic about them, [...]]]></description>
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