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		<title>Evidence-based education in Head Start?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isabel Sawhill and Jon Baron published an editorial in Education Week calling for a new approach to the venerable Head Start program, one founded on evidence about effectiveness. They argue that in the wake of the discouraging Head Start Impact Study reported by US Department of Health &#38; Human Services, it&#8217;s time to bring research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read the Rose Report on reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those readers from the UK are almost surely familiar with the &#8220;Rose Report,&#8221; but readers in other parts of the world may not know about it. Identifying and Teaching Children and Young People with Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties: An independent report from Sir Jim Rose to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rating LEAs&#8217; teaching?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today in Washington (DC, US) the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute launch a public service Web site that allows visitors to learn about the healthiness of localities on a county-by-county basis across the US. The news got me thinking&#8212;Danger!&#8212;about the possibility of creating a similar resource for consumers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socrates questions educators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Zig Site, Siegfried Engelmann has a new series of articles in which Socrates questions fictitious educators about educational concepts. In the first, Socrates engages one Dr. Gibbs, a &#8220;prominent professor of education.&#8221; Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
Dr. Gibbs: Learning is extremely complicated and influenced by a host of factors, including motivation and parental attitudes. The [...]]]></description>
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