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	<description>Social justice, Religion, Education, Technology and all points in between..</description>
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		<title>What &#8220;Superman&#8221; didn&#8217;t tell you about America&#8217;s 25th Ranking.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the marketing points of &#8220;Waiting for Superman&#8221; was that America was ranked 25th behind other nations in math.   According to Bracey&#8217;s report,  we were 24th.    Most people see that as proof that America&#8217;s schools are failing and somehow teachers and unions are the blame, but if you look closer, you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyberbullying is not about technology.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  don&#8217;t know how much more I can take.   First,  the attack on the teachers and teacher unions, now some are attacking schools to find a solution to cyberbullying.  Legislators are passing laws.  Interviews, talk shows, who has the answer?  Well, let&#8217;s take a moment to take a step back.  Cyberbullying has become the gun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Superman or the Black Trail of Tears?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotions are running high.  The sight of all of the poor inner city youth being held hostage in failing schools brings up a well of emotion, but wait there is an answer.  Leave those dilapidated centers of &#8220;race to the bottom&#8221; schools  and come on over the the promise land of charters, no unions and [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<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 have with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The shroud has fallen&#8230; The tablet wars have begun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>To the &#8220;Reform at Any Cost&#8221; crowd and supporters, thereof</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fly Me To The Moon. What about right around the corner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Where are the black magazine iPhone apps?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firing teachers: First step to reform or useless effort? &#8211; USATODAY.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<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>
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		<title>Start Black History Month Off Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<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>
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