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		<title>Broad Foundation: Facts on the Wrecking of Public Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Perimeter Primate has posted two pieces on what it deems &#8220;the Broad Effect&#8221; &#8212; what is more aptly described as the wrecking of public education. The first installment begins:
The Broad Effect” is behind the recent events in Rhode Island (the Central Falls firings ), and in Detroit, where the Detroit Public School Board has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 4 Actions to Defend Public Education &amp; Ravitch Opposition to Testing and Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy Now! offers a summary of actions during the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. “Students and teachers held hundreds of demonstrations on Thursday as part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. Hundreds of thousands took part in what was the largest day of coordinated student protest in years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hess on Federal Jargon &amp; the Jargon of Venture Capitalism  and Wall Street Dictate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much is now being made of the finalists for the first round of Race to the Top funds. To his credit, AEI’s Fred Hess has apparently started to review the substance of the applications. But his posting does not portend a substantive analysis from this “think tank”; instead we are treated to a kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for Tests, Learning&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read Cohen and Moffitt&#8217;s, The Ordeal of Equality, I could not help but make some connections to a recent Schools Matter post on high stakes testing. One of my &#8220;favorite&#8221; items reprinted was this report from Hartford Courant:
Two teachers and a guidance counselor blinged out in gold chains, sunglasses and running suits will rap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Thinking a &#8220;Skill&#8221;? Values and Problems in Thinking About the &#8220;Liberal Arts&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.markgarrison.net/archives/789</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s online version of the Chronicle of Higher Education, four views regarding the “future of the liberal arts” are presented. While not intending to pick on Martha Nussbaum’s “The Liberal Arts Are Not Elitist” &#8212; for in spirit we share a common concern &#8212; the piece does nonetheless represent some perennial problems in how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;A Measure of Failure: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.markgarrison.net/archives/772</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February issue of Counseling Today carries a review of my book by Aaron W. Hughey, professor of counseling and student affairs, Western Kentucky University.
The essay begins: &#8220;True or false: Proponents of standardized testing are, unintentionally or otherwise, pushing an agenda that intrinsically advocates racism and socioeconomic oppression. Intrigued? Then read on. It really is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Realism and Social Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In corresponding with Cassiodorus about my book, the question of social change took center stage.
When you argue for social change you inevitably come up against the claims of “realism” &#8212; we can’t change this or that because to do so would be “unrealistic.”  This is the argument typically favored by the incrementalists: “since we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Tests Measures of Test Taking Ability?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent discussion of my book, A Measure of Failure, the typical argument against any critique of standardized testing was issued in response to a favorable review of the book’s main points. In the comments we read: “A math test, such as the math portion of the SAT for instance, most certainly measures a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Questions of Education Reform Are Really Questions of Who Decides</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is clear that the education “reform” is being driven by a tiny minority of super wealthy “philanthropists”, executive authorities at state and federal levels of government, and some select “experts”. These are the same forces that have been “leading” education “reform” for the past 30 years, with the result that little has improved, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remarks by the President on the &#8220;Education To Innovate&#8221; Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.markgarrison.net/archives/728</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Garrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House Office of the Press Secretary
November 23, 2009
South Court Auditorium, Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building
THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  I am extraordinarily excited to have you all here today.  A couple of special acknowledgements I want to make &#8212; first of all, two of my outstanding Cabinet members:  Secretary [...]]]></description>
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