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		<title>Making word problems out of real life math, OR, Erasing the fear and frustration of word problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahh, math word problems – the nemesis of every K-12 student.
The three things I get the most tutoring calls for is handwriting, study skills, and math, specifically math word problems.
I totally get it – word problems are difficult.  It’s only been in the past three years that I have felt comfortable with them.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/03/making-word-problems-out-of-real-life-math-or-erasing-the-fear-and-frustration-of-word-problems/</link>
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		<title>Just a Bang On the Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first started working in education, I was a substitute teacher.  I worked in several districts and in a variety of classroom settings.
Although I have loads of stories, perhaps the two that get told the most are of when I got a concussion.  Yep, and not only once – but twice.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/03/just-a-bang-on-the-head/</link>
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		<title>Principals Fired, All Teachers Fired, School Proficiency Under Scrutiny:  What is Happening to Education?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks there have been so many print articles and news stories about education that have gotten me fired up.  Too many for me to take them one by one and present them to you.  So here I have complied a few, with my added commentary, for you to peruse. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/03/principals-fired-all-teachers-fired-school-proficiency-under-scrutiny-what-is-happening-to-education/</link>
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		<title>Teachable Moment: The Winter Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Really, what about the Olympics can&#8217;t be made into a lesson?   There&#8217;s history, athletics, mathematics, geography, measurements, distance, arts, public speaking, coloring/drawing, graphs, reports, research, languages, foreign cultures, etc.
For me, as an educator, the biggest frustration I had with graduate school was that my professors wanted me to bring more to my lessons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/02/teachable-moment-the-winter-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Do Schools Test Too Much?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a bit of irony involved with this article – as the majority of public schools across the country are in the midst of their yearly dose of state testing.  Furthermore, college students have just finished up their finals for the year; at the same time, high schoolers get ready to take their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/02/do-schools-test-too-much/</link>
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		<title>Student Stories: J</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past six years, I’ve been in a lot of classroom and met a lot of students.  As in life, there were those that stuck out in my mind; who are still in my thoughts today.
I met J when she was in the 3rd grade.  She was a tall bean pole with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/02/student-stories-j/</link>
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		<title>The Case Against Pre-School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the London Observer, a column was written in October, advocating sending children off to school at the age of four, or younger; even though a new report in Britain, by the Cambridge Review came out stating that toddlers’ brains aren’t cognitively developed enough for it.  The columnist, Barbara Ellen, who is a the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/02/the-case-against-pre-school/</link>
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		<title>Recession Schools : The Local Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting last year I found at least five articles the discussed the cutback schools had made in order to finish out the school year.  Although I applaud districts for their creativity, I struggled to understand how our modern day society thought that these cuts were alright.  Why wasn’t anyone thinking about the impact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/02/recession-schools-the-local-story/</link>
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		<title>Forcing Kids To Get Fit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if we needed more reason to encourage our kids to get healthy.
Parade Magazine
http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/100110-should-students-be-forced-to-get-fit.html
I think that our kids should be forced to be fit.  When I was in school, not too many eons ago, we had to do jumping jacks, sit ups, run a mile, and get dirty too.  Now, those things are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/02/forcing-kids-to-get-fit/</link>
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		<title>Job Outlook for the Class of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I read an opinion/commentary from a student who is a graduate of the Class of 2009.  The young woman talked about the gloomy career prospects, how dismissal and bleak all of the reports are for the recent graduates.  Yet, instead of letting this bring her down and fret about her future, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/02/job-outlook-for-the-class-of-2010/</link>
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