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		<title>Common-Standards &#8211; Incontrovertible Logic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></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>Education Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[importance of parents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[randomized controlled trials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research that supports families]]></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>Common Core Standards in the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan H. Fuhrman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fordham Institute&#8217;s report, Stars by Which to Navigate: Scanning National and International Standards in 2009, has brought The Common Core State Standards Initiative back into the news.

Proposed National Academic Standards Sidestep Debate
By Nick Anderson
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it is known, is an attempt to fashion de facto national standards for math [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unschooling &#8230; a little bit of &#8216;don&#8217;t try this at home&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Week News, Bethesda, Maryland, 19 December 2006, Unschooling&#8217; Stresses Curiosity More Than Traditional Academics
As yellow school buses rumble through Nicole Puckett&#8217;s Spokane, Wash., neighborhood, her eight children are often asleep in bed. When they wake up, instead of heading to school, they go downstairs to begin another day of &#8220;unschooling,&#8221; an educational approach that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Week&#8217;s &#8216;Unschool&#8217; Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Week has published an article about unschooling, &#8216;Unschooling&#8217;  Stresses Curiosity More Than Traditional Academic by Michelle R. Davis.  You may have to have a membership to sign in (it is free) to read the December 20th  report, but it is worth taking the time to register.
Ms. Davis first tells us about [...]]]></description>
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