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		<title>England: Firms and charities line up to run free schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Private firms are lining up with parent groups to run the Conservatives&#39; flagship &#34;free schools&#34; in England. Parents set up free schools but others may run them. These are the new schools that Education Secretary Michael Gove wants parent or teacher groups to set up and run with public funds. Some education firms are already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Open University student numbers increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of young people taking Open University courses has seen a sharp rise, the educational body has said. Its figures show an "unprecedented" 34% increase in 18 to 24-year-olds doing a distance learning degree.]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. school system fires 241 teachers By Sally Holland, CNN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington (CNN) &#8212; The District of Columbia public school system announced Friday that it is letting 226 employees go for poor performance under the education assessment system IMPACT. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee said all D.C. public school students have &#34;a right to a highly effective teacher.&#34; Another 76 employees will be terminated because of licensing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining Education…in a Tree House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point or another every kid has dreamt of living in something like the Swiss Family Robinson&#8217;s tree house; even fictional children like Bart Simpson. I think I could have settled for going to school there. And&#8212;fantastical as it seems&#8212;that&#8217;s exactly what the Green School in Bali feels like. A few weeks ago I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Schools policy &#8216;more to do with media than evidence&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pressure for quick fixes can outweigh research evidence when ministers set schools policy, according to a study of three decades of education initiatives. Frost/Morris: Do ministers respond to media pressure more than evidence?. Media pressure and political expediency are more likely to influence decision making, says a report from the CfBT education charity. The report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Lousy Reasons for Not Homeschooling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8216;Parent at the Helm&#8217; Super Sisters, a sub-section of PBS Parents online, appears akin to reality television shows, only occurring online and focusing on three sisters who are raising children. A recent post from one of the sisters features “school troubles” with her third grader. She also outlines her options to address the problems, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pt. 2: The 18th Annual International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC 2010) (VIDEO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AERO recently participated in one of the most unique annual education events, the International Democratic Education Conference, held in Tel Aviv, Israel.  Below, you will find some amateur video we were able to shoot of a few select workshops.  For more information on the conference, visit http://2010.e-idec.org. Panel Discussion: Democratic Schools: Where Are They Heading? 9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 18th Annual International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC 2010) (VIDEO)</title>
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		<title>Personalizing Learning – The Important Role of Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t that long ago I began my high school teaching career. Fairly early on, I worked with one teacher who epitomized the mindset of many secondary school colleagues.]]></description>
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		<title>When Less is More: The Case for Teaching Less Math in Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Peter Gray / &#39;Freedom to Learn&#39; blog In an experiment, children who were taught less learned more. In 1929, the superintendent of schools in Ithaca, New York, sent out a challenge to his colleagues in other cities. &#34;What,&#34; he asked, &#34;can we drop from the elementary school curriculum?&#34; He complained that over the years [...]]]></description>
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