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		<title>Testing 1,2,3: Accountability Run Amok</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“April is child abuse prevention month,” proclaims Fritzwire, a no-nonsense  e-bulletin that arrives daily with policy-related updates from the nation’s capitol.
You wouldn’t know it here in New York City.  Recently, I listened to one of the many sad stories circulating, online and off, around the precincts of the public schools, whose students from third through <font color="#cc6633"><em>[... click post title to read more ...]</em></font>]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting the Paradigm of ECE Professionalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Ochshorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started the new year re-reading David Kirp’s Kids First, an immodest proposal  for changing children’s trajectories in our dear U.S. of A., a country that pays lip service to mother, apple pie, and family values, but doesn’t walk the talk.  As I glided through his chapters, with their vivid descriptions of early learning settings and <font color="#cc6633"><em>[... click post title to read more ...]</em></font>]]></description>
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		<title>Children, Poverty, and Outcomes: Who&#8217;s Distorting Reality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Ochshorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I happened upon the latest blog post of Amanda Ripley, an up-and-coming edu-pundit who recently changed focus from how the brain works under extreme duress to how other countries “build” smarter kids.  “Reality Distortion Field,”  is a frontal assault on Diane Ravitch and others who declare poverty “a problem so intractable that schools cannot be <font color="#cc6633"><em>[... click post title to read more ...]</em></font>]]></description>
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