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		<title>Pearson &#8220;Why I Teach&#8221; Compilation Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the individual &#8220;Why I Teach&#8221; videos that each of the 2008 Teachers of the Year created in New York City in late September. Recently, the Pearson Foundation took those videos and had a compilation done with some segments from about half the videos.
You can watch the video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MinnPost and Racial Segregation in Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MinnPost, the Twin Cities&#8217; respected and growing online news site, is running a five-part series this week on segregation in Minnesota&#8217;s schools. It&#8217;s great to see MinnPost bring education to the forefront of their news coverage. With the economy, energy, the election, and foreign policy dominating news coverage of late, it seems that there has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robbinsdale 2008: How to Win a School Levy Referendum Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe it passed!&#8221; If I&#8217;ve heard this comment once, I&#8217;ve heard it a dozen times this week from teachers at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School, where I teach in the mornings. This Tuesday, while most districts saw requests for increased funding get denied, residents in the Robbinsdale school district approved not one, but two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearson Foundation Why I Teach Video Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ In early October, the Pearson Foundation brought all the 2008 National State Teachers of the Year to New York City to make two-minute videos titled &#8220;Why We Teach&#8221;. Each Teacher of the Year created a short speech and brought some photos to a Manhattan studio. We spent an afternoon making our videos with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Danger of Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The quality of a school system directly impacts home values and overall community quality, and after-school programs are one of the many reasons. Every year I see the difference that sports, music, and arts programs can make in kids. Occasionally I hear opponents of the upcoming school referendums in Minnesota say that we don’t need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In education, we take pride in good answers. But in order to get good answers, you’ve got to have good questions. Bad questions can cause all sorts of problems. Take, for example, the education question in the final debate between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. In case you missed it, here is the lead-in: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Nominations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are still three weeks left to nominate a teacher for the upcoming 2009 Minnesota Teacher of the Year award. Anyone can nominate a candidate, so if you’ve had a teacher that has had an impact on your life or whose teaching you greatly respect, nominating them for Minnesota Teacher of the Year is a [...]]]></description>
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