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		<title>Socrates questions educators</title>
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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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		<title>More DW on LS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teach Effectively pal Dan Willingham has another treatment of the learning-styles myth at the Washington Post. In a guest entry for Valerie Strauss&#8217; &#8220;The Answer Sheet,&#8221; Professor Willingham mentions the recent scientific review of research that debunked the myth (yet again) and provides responses to some of the pro-myth arguments that he&#8217;s encountered. Here&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>xkcd for your edification</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randall Munroe creates the xkcd comic, and he often includes insights about logic, mathematics, and science in his strips or other images. This is one of my faves, so I&#8217;m passing it along to readers as a gift.

The image points to that particular cartoon. Once you&#8217;re there explore, or click this link to go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go for DI and SFA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Slavin and colleagues reported that reading programs that provide extensive professional development on instructional strategies which promote  student participation, strengthen phonics competence, and explicitly teach comprehension strategies are the best bets for improving reading achievement. The clearest examples of the programs that led to the highest achievement were Direct Instruction and Success for [...]]]></description>
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