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	<title>Education- Technology &#38; The Urban Community Blog</title>
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	<description>Technology issues that concern the urban minority  community</description>
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		<title>Technology and what Dr.Henry Gates didn&#8217;t tell you about Africa&#8217;s involvement in the slave trade.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2007, I was attending my second National Educating Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta. I was a part of the Digital Equity Special Interest Group.  The guest speaker was Dr. Sylvia Rousseau, Professor of Clinical Education; Rossier   School of Education Ed.D., Pepperdine University, California.  She remarked about the sordid history that we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=555</link>
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		<title>The shroud has fallen&#8230; The tablet wars have begun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop looking for an iPad killer.  The issue is who will be the strongest contender.  It seems that we are about to hit a tsunami of tabless in the next coming months, and I predict that many will make a strong showing at ISTE 2010 in Denver.  Particularly, those who are planning to get into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=547</link>
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		<title>To the &#8220;Reform at Any Cost&#8221; crowd and supporters, thereof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch &#8211; A new agenda for school reform &#8211; washingtonpost.com.
This is an excellent article uncovering the shear ignorance, misrepresentation and oversimplification of educational reform.  Parents, I hope you read this article and allow it to be the basis for your continuing education on education and reform.  It&#8217;s time out for speeches, half-truths,  and catch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=545</link>
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		<title>Fly Me To The Moon. What about right around the corner?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been watching a lot of post of twitter concerning education reform, failing school, sorry teachers, school closure and student achievement.  I saw a post recently where a parent was quoted as saying that they would drive to the moon for the best education.  It&#8217;s funny how we will go to such extremes for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=537</link>
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		<title>Where are the black magazine iPhone apps?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IPad Subscriptions Could Boost Mag Circulation &#8211; BLACK ENTERPRISE.
Where are the black magazine &#38; newspaper  iPhone and web apps?  There is something wrong with this picture.  Technology is one way to overcome the obstacles in the real world, but getting on the forefront of the technology is crucial.  It&#8217;s time that we start creating our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=535</link>
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		<title>Firing teachers: First step to reform or useless effort? &#8211; USATODAY.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The policy center concluded that the restructuring models promoted by Obama are an improvement over No Child Left Behind but warned that because they include &#8220;specific directives that are not supported by research, it is unwise to prescribe them&#8221; to schools. &#8220;The federal government should be careful about directing people to do things when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=532</link>
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		<title>Start Black History Month Off Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing we do is start highlighting black figures that we have never heard of.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with this, but I believe that &#8220;hindsight is 20/20&#8243;.  In other words, to clearly see the present you have to look at the past.  Dr. Carter Woodson  who we consider the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=527</link>
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		<title>The iPad and ed tech. My thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now it&#8217;s here.  After months of speculation and rumor, Apple has finally shown us its latest creation, the iPad.  Since I am in educational technology, I will look at it from that perspective first.  Would I get one? Sure. I was looking to getting an iPod Touch soon because teachers should have a Touch or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=525</link>
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		<title>Edward Deming&#8217;s 14 points for Education and Educational Technology Pt. I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now, you should know that I am an advocate of the teaching and guidance of Edward Deming as a road map for true educational reform.  You should also know by now that I am not a fan of heavy corporate influence into education and educational reform.  Since we seem to continue  down this road, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mpmgonline.com/wp/?p=512</link>
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		<title>With Double Digit Unemployment, H1B visas should not be allowed.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blacks hit hard by economy&#8217;s punch &#8211; washingtonpost.com.
Look at what and how much companies are paying for work from foreign laborers.
Take a look at the Foreign Labor Certification Policies and Regulations from the Department of  Labor.
The INA directs the Secretary of Labor to certify that there are not sufficient workers who are able, willing, qualified [...]]]></description>
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