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		<title>&#8220;Are Too Many Students Going to College?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/too-many-college-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cover feature for the November 13 issue of the Chronicle Review section of the The Chronicle of Higher Education is a forum on the question: &#8220;Are Too Many Students Going to College?&#8221;
People are sure to differ in their judgments as to how that question should be answered. What I want to call attention to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2995&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mass., Va., etc. &#8220;students&#8217; religious freedom&#8221; bills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s &#8220;An Act Relative to Protecting the Religious Freedom of Students&#8221; pending in the Massachusetts legislature which, according to Antoinette Pizzi reporting in the Cape Cod Times, &#8220;has bipartisan support and is expected to pass favorably through the Joint Committee on Education.&#8221;
Folks at the National Center for Science Education have taken particular notice of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2974&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CERU: 12th Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commercialism in Education Research Unit, a partner center of the Education Policy Research Unit at Arizona State University, has released Click: The Twelfth Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends: 2008-2009.
The word &#8220;Click&#8221; is part of the title this year (not just part of the link), since this year&#8217;s report is concerned with children getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2921&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Hedges &#124; BookTV &#124; Colbert Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, October 11th at 12pm noon (ET), BookTV on CSpan2 will be re-airing their &#8220;After Words&#8221; interview of Chris Hedges on his new book, Empire of illusion: the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle.
I saw this segment last weekend, and then I bought the book. Hedges has more depth and perspective than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2917&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Educ Sec Arne Duncan on Colbert (Oct 5, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I saw Chris Hedges on BookTV&#8217;s &#8220;AfterWords,&#8221; and I thought &#8220;this is somebody that I need to see on the Colbert Report.&#8221; I decided to do some posting to encourage that encounter (that will be my next post after this one &#8212; see the post above this one, or the link with arrow, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2909&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>civic education study 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two people landed on this blog today by doing searches on &#8220;civic education study 2009&#8243;.
I think I&#8217;ve had browser windows open for the last few days on what they probably were looking for, but I hadn&#8217;t had the time to save those items, much less post anything about them.
Anyway, the most substantial source on that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2901&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana procedures for disputes over anti-science materials in biology classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILL SENTELL of the [Baton Rouge] Advocate Capitol News Bureau reports that &#8220;Procedure [have now been] crafted for handling evolution-materials complaints&#8220;: 
The department recommended that any complaints undergo an initial review by a three-member panel named by the agency, then go to the state board for a final decision.
But Dale Bayard, of Sulphur, chairman of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2891&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NCLB &#8220;lying to children and parents&#8221; &#8211; U.S. Ed Sec Duncan, Sept. 24, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an Ed Dept press release:
In his speech, Duncan said that the NCLB law has significant flaws and that he looks forward to working with Congress to address the law&#8217;s problems. He said the law puts too much emphasis on standardized tests, unfairly labels many schools as failures, and doesn&#8217;t account for students&#8217; academic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2885&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;neutrality&#8221; strikes again: banned band shirts in MO (evolution/religion dispute)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Whitson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A story by Tonya Fennell for the Sedalia (MO) Democrat reports on the action taken by Assistant Superintendent Brad Pollitt in response to complaints from some parents about T-shirts designed for the school marching band&#8217;s program, &#8220;Brass Evolutions 2009.&#8221; Pollitt says he &#8220;made the decision to have the band members turn the shirts in after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2806&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three books for civic economic literacy (Book TV)</title>
		<link>http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/3-economic-literacy-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three books on BookTV (CSpan2) this weekend:


Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis , by Guy Sorman
 
About the Program
Mr. Sorman argues that to get rid of the free market because it&#8217;s imperfect would be a danegrous overreaction to recent events. Rebuilding trust in the market is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curricublog.wordpress.com&blog=457479&post=2777&subd=curricublog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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