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		<title>Corrupted Absolutely</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the outrage against those government officials and elected representatives who are so eager to push aside constitutional rights for their own interests?]]></description>
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		<title>College Costs and Federal Aid</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enabler is federal aid that flows from a government ignorant of the effects of its own policies.]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Lust</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...the technology lust in public schools is helping to crowd out the former emphasis on reading for depth and meaning, writing that is original and persuasive, and other fundamental skills.]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar Highs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If educators would put aside their insecurities they might recognize that learning in depth and communicating with meaning still holds intrinsic promise and reward.]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptable Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 13:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To call a written contract for elementary students developmentally inappropriate is the understatement of the year. The very idea is laughable and sums up the kind of twisted thinking common to educators in our public schools.]]></description>
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		<title>Powerpoint Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of rewarding an investment in a comprehensive process of learning or even the intrinsic value of gaining knowledge, the Powerpoint assignments reward speed over depth, dazzle over content and the superficial summary of the topic.]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher Merit Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delve below the surface and the simplicity of the merit pay argument becomes far more complex.]]></description>
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		<title>The Sarah Palin Phenomenon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I wish is that we could have recognized both that Palin was not ready for prime time and that, as a woman—a beautiful woman and a mother—she has equal prerogative to a man to pursue a leadership role with out having to justify herself.]]></description>
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		<title>Small Steps In The Wrong Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indoctrination is a very real threat, and there is no where to run when you are captive audience in an elementary school classroom.]]></description>
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		<title>A Fading Instinct</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder whether the vestiges of what started as a very different American republic, the threadbare fabric of capitalism and freedom, will be strong enough to withstand the continuing onslaught of statism.]]></description>
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