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		<title>In the Interim, Your Thoughts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the pauses between my essays isn&#8217;t confidence freeze, but actual busy-ness. Other times, I am just researching or mulling. This pause has been a combination of the above, plus I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading today, preparing for what I hope will be the next essay. In the meantime, I thought I&#8217;d throw [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3468&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jason Richwine and Goring the Media&#8217;s Ox</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 17:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first ran into Jason Richwine&#8217;s name while writing part one and part two of Teacher Quality Pseudofacts, and I know this because I had to keep referring to the study to get the names right. Was it Weinrich and Biggs? Bigwine and Rich? Bigrich and Wein? Very confusing. My two-parter was dedicated to the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3421&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Popular Posts and Favorites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 01:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a huge month in April, over 25% larger than my last winner, November. My blog has a total of 121,000 page views (since January 1, 2012) and have 178 followers on Twitter. The last probably doesn&#8217;t seem terribly impressive, but I literally started with 0 followers. I told no friends or family of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3379&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modeling Exponential Growth/Decay Interspersed with a Reform Rant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 01:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quadratics have become my new nadir, which is cheerier news than it sounds since it means I&#8217;ve kicked linear equations into obedient submission. For the first two and a half years of my teaching career, I felt good about quadratics because if nothing else, most kids remembered how to factor, and remembered that factors had [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3347&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Enlightenment and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a node on the network of the Dark Enlightenment. I myself refer to the subject as the Voldemort View, the View that Must Not Be Named. But everyone else is naming it, and the damn names keep changing. I had just gotten used to HBD. Now, just as I&#8217;m becoming to accustomed to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3304&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile&#8230;.midterms again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally thought I could blog daily. Ha, ha. I managed close to that in January 2012, the first month of the blog, but it made me unhappy. Since then, I&#8217;ve usually managed an entry every five days or so. Sometimes I&#8217;d go 8-9 days after a really successful post, hiding away and watching reruns [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3292&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Indian Public Charters: What Word Are You Forgetting, People?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please, spare the world any more bleats about the dreadful injustice committed by revoking American Indian Public Charter High School&#8217;s charter. Andrew Coulson: In a 2011 study, I found that AIM is the highest-performing charter school network in the state, by a wide margin. That is after controlling for student characteristics and schoolwide peer effects. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3268&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philip Dick, Preschool and Schrödinger&#8217;s Cat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;but anyone who has spent more than a minute thinking about education reform knows that kids experiences between the time they are born and the time they enter kindergarten at age five matter a whole lot in terms of how well they are going to do once they are in school, and I would say [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=2251&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Tests, Zitbrains!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minority Groups Remain Outnumbered at Teaching Programs, Study Reports According to a study being released Wednesday by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, which represents colleges and universities with teacher certification programs, 82 percent of candidates who received bachelor’s degrees in education in 2009-10 and 2010-11 were white. &#8230;. Even in programs that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3123&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plague of the Middlebrow Pundits, Revisited: Walter Russell Mead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, I taught at a super-progressive small school with a limited opportunity to offer elective courses. So each year teachers got to offer a one-week, 40-hour elective course on any topic they wanted, and if 20 kids signed up, they taught it. I got twenty signups with this class (the original flyer was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationrealist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31018979&#038;post=3128&#038;subd=educationrealist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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