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	<title>Andrea Merida, Director, District 2, Denver Board of Education &#187; EduPolicy</title>
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		<title>A Plus Denver joins the ranks of Denver plan skeptics&#8230;welcome!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Denver's political elite begin to agree with parents and community, it's time for the Superintendent to sit up and listen.]]></description>
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		<title>ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress to think twice about reforming NCLB</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on new House proposals to revise the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and its current incarnation, NCLB.  Please contact the Colorado delegation today!]]></description>
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		<title>Is calculus really the pinnacle of math curriculum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Benjamin, a mathematician and professor at Harvey Mudd College, believes that we really should be taking a more user-friendly, hands on approach to math curriculum in our schools.  He argues that most people use statistics more than the algorithms and processes that lead to calculus.  While we do want kids to have a shot at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The law should stand by parents who say no to standardized testing &#8211; support HB 1049!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["No high-performing nation tests its students every year or uses student test scores to evaluate teacher quality.”  Parents are making serious and informed decisions about curriculum for their kids, and they know what's best for their children.  Let's support their right to do so.]]></description>
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		<title>Must-reads for January 26, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my picks for today's must-reads on education policy, teaching and learning, and other child-related issues.  Please read, comment and share!]]></description>
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		<title>Must-reads for January 25, 2012</title>
		<link>http://andreamerida.com/must-reads-for-january-25-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's notable links related to education, politics and child-related issues. Please read and share!]]></description>
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		<title>Must-reads for January 24, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[EduPolicy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today's notable links related to education, politics and child-related issues. Please read and share!]]></description>
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		<title>Must-reads for January 23, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[EduPolicy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today's notable links related to education, politics and child-related issues.  Please read and share!]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King, Jr. on education</title>
		<link>http://andreamerida.com/martin-luther-king-jr-on-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]></description>
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		<title>DPS needs to pay attention to its own data and to reforms that work</title>
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		<comments>http://andreamerida.com/dps-needs-to-pay-attention-to-its-own-data-and-to-reforms-that-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The path to closing the achievement gap and, therefore, a strong school district, is to ensure that all our students have equitable opportunities to robust and challenging academics. We have to reform schools according to the needs of the kids actually in our schools, not for kids we might wish we had.]]></description>
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