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		<title>Free gift from Education Consumers Foundation!</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2011/12/06/free-gift-from-education-consumers-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it unusual to get something for free that is actually worth a lot? The good folks over at Education Consumers Foundation (ECF) are giving away a small book that is quite valuable, and I encourage readers to download it, read it, and tell their friends to get it, too. What are they giving away? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the teaching that matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does all the verbiage about the ills of education make you wonder about the reasoning skills of educational reformers? Well, it does make me have questions. I practice resisting the urge to walk away when people start attributing educational underachievement to problems we educators can&#8217;t change (poverty, for example) or to features of schooling that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kauffman&#8217;s Tragicomedy recognized</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 21:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent Publisher, a resource for publishers who are not the giant publishing houses that dominate contemporary book publishing these days, annually awards the &#8220;IPPY&#8221; Awards, which recognize what the Independent Publisher bills as &#8220;the best indie-published books of the year in 69 categories, 11 regions, and 12 Outstanding Books of the Year.&#8221; For 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B. Cook on evidence-based practices</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2011/02/25/b-cook-on-evidence-based-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on SpedPro I have a post about an up-coming Webinar on evidence-based practices presented by Bryan Cook. A product of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and and CEC&#8217;s Division for Research, the session is billed as helping educators answer questions such as these: What exactly does evidence-based practice mean for practitioners? How are [...]]]></description>
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