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		<title>Is Online Coursework Appropriate for K-12 Students?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several recent articles, such as &#8220;Virtually Educated,&#8221; by Gail Collins, and &#8220;The New Digital Divide,&#8221; by Susan P. Crawford, explore the implications of both mandated online learning and issues of access for urban and rural poor.  While many are familiar with online &#8212; or distance &#8212; learning as part of recent efforts by universities to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=227&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though I&#8217;ve blogged frequently about the problems inherent in applying a business model to education, today&#8217;s announcement of the resignation of recently appointed New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, an accomplished businesswoman with no prior education experience, does not come as a surprise.  Elissa Gootman and Michael Barbaro (NYT, City Room, April 7, 2011) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=215&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online Tutoring: How Far Will We Go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wherever you fly, you&#8217;ll be the best of the best./Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.&#8221; &#8212; Dr. Seuss from Oh, The Places You&#8217;ll Go (1990) Cope and Kalantzis (2000) suggest that the purpose of education &#8220;is to ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=196&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom River:  Our Fate is in Our Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1970s, Orson Welles narrated a short animated film, Freedom River, a parable about how American indifference and exceptionalism leads to the perpetuation of social injustice &#8212; and how change, the fight for social justice for all of our citizens, is in all of our hands.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=206&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My reading of the press surrounding Guggenheim&#8217;s film Waiting for Superman has been accompanied by intermittent outbursts of giggling mixed with gagging.  While his film presents a very real snapshot of the inequities in our public education system, particularly concerning some of our struggling urban schools, his depiction of charter schools, which represent only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=193&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. Schools Propose Expansion of K-12 Standardized Testing &#8212; Do We Really Know Erin McGoldrick?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article written by Bill Turque appearing in today&#8217;s Washington Post reveals what can only be considered a controversial move by Washington D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee&#8217;s goal to expand the use of standardized testing to include regular testing of all students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. According to Turque, the purpose of the testing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=175&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education Reform: Diane Ravitch&#8217;s Miraculous Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an op-ed piece appearing in today’s Washington Post, Diane Ravitch addresses how problematic accountability and choice school initiatives have become in the eight years since No Child Left Behind became the law of the land.  Given that the state of Florida is continuing with measures in recently proposed legislation that ties teacher pay to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=165&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literacy Demands and the Workplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were of the canine species, my reaction to reading Beaufort’s “Preparing Adolescents for the Literacy Demands of the 21st-Century Workplace” (Christenbury et al., 2009, pp. 239-255) would have immediately resulted in my hackles being raised.  Instead, I read her arguments with great interest, yet also concern, as I disagree with some of her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=162&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adolescence, Literacy, and the Reform Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the introduction to their text, Christenbury et al. (2009) identify three areas for focus:  adolescence, literacy, and research, noting that their definitions are not limited to the “simple, unified, [and] unproblematic” (p. 3), but that the complexities inherent in each are compounded when they interact. As the United States pushes forward in its education [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=158&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working Class, Working Lives:  Examining Deborah Hicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deborah Hicks&#8217; Reading Lives: Working-Class Children and Literacy Learning is a text thoroughly embedded in a theoretical framework of critical inquiry, with focus in both feminist and Marxist thought. That said, the weaving of theory with the case studies of two working-class White students, combined with the author&#8217;s background and experiences in the working class, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brigitteknudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5981183&amp;post=141&amp;subd=brigitteknudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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