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	<title>Parents 'n Schools</title>
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	<description>Schooling from the wondering parent's point of view</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 15:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Post article on New Orleans schooling</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=642</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 15:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Big Easy’s school revolution
By Jo-Ann Armao, Published: April 27
Jo-Ann Armao is a member of The Post’s editorial page staff.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-big-easys-school-revolution/2012/04/27/gIQAS4bDmT_story.html
NEW ORLEANS
Neerav Kingsland lives and breathes numbers. But when you ask the chief strategy officer of New Schools for New Orleans about this city’s remarkable efforts to rebuild its schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans new way of schooling</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=641</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 15:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After Katrina, changes happened in New Orleans&#8217; schooling. It went from mostly government managed to mostly charter managed. And people there are increasingly believing that rather than reforming government schooling, &#8220;relinquishing&#8221; schooling from government management is the better way to go.
Something I&#8217;ve been writing about for some time (search here for &#8220;Seven Wonders&#8221;).
Here&#8217;s an excerpt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Minister&#8217;s letter highlights parent engagement</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=640</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberta&#8217;s Education Minister&#8217;s newsletter circulated today highlighted in one component features of parent engagement (and not the fundraising kind) as being learned through school improvement initiatives:
Spotlight on parent engagement                           [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates&#8217; 2012 education improvements</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=639</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from Bill Gates&#8217; annual letter regarding the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:
Our work in U.S. education focuses on  two related goals: making sure that all students graduate from high  school ready to succeed in college and that young adults who want to get  a postsecondary degree have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Involvement by parents means home, not school</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=638</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From New York Times op-ed section (Tom Friedman):
To better understand why some students thrive taking the PISA tests and others do not, Andreas Schleicher, who oversees the exams for the O.E.C.D., was encouraged by the O.E.C.D. countries to look beyond the classrooms. So starting with four countries in 2006, and then adding 14 more in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dressing it up</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=637</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Advertising Standards Canada has an information campaign out on bus shelters and websites informing of their work maintaining truth in advertising standards. The campaign slogan is &#8220;Dressing it up doesn&#8217;t make it true.&#8221; Their main message is &#8220;because among all the pretty words and pictures, truth matters&#8221;.
Coincidentally, the Alberta government has launched a re-look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So much is pretend</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=636</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Parents as Consumers Not Partners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public education as a &#8220;partnership&#8221; between home and school&#8230; between parents and educators&#8230; is
&#8230; convenient to say
&#8230; a poor deal for parents (the &#8220;least partner&#8221;), and
&#8230; meaningless in law.
It is a pretend thing, a fictional construct, backed by nothing really at all.
And the fiction gets in the way of reality, and any real progress attainable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of Rooms to Read</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=635</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Wood and his remarkable &#8220;Leaving Microsoft to Change the World&#8221; book and his even more remarkable &#8220;Room to Read&#8221; charity was recently featured in the New York Times, as they passed their 10 millionth book milestone.
The NY Times story captured his purpose and vision elegantly:
“I get frustrated that there are 793 million illiterate people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well played, Madame Premier</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=634</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1890&#8217;s, the goal of organized labour was described as &#8220;More!&#8221;
Alberta&#8217;s new Premier Redford demonstrated this month during her campaign for leadership her understanding that this goal is alive and powerful within the ranks of government school collectives, when she deliberately took $100 million out of the Provincial Treasury and promised it as &#8220;More!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parent involvement in legislating change</title>
		<link>http://www.parentsnschools.com/?p=633</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GLO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well worth capturing here from Whitney Tilson&#8217;s blog, quoting a public statement from a California organization called &#8220;Parent Revolution&#8221; that was involved in establishing meaningful and effective and just regulations to empower parents to change school systems that are not performing for children and families.
To me, it is a victory, too, for the lifting of [...]]]></description>
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