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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>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2011/12/05/its-the-teaching-that-matters/</link>
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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>More free Funnix! It&#8217;s math this time.</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2011/06/02/more-free-funnix-its-math-this-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks who brought us the give-away of Funnix Beginning Reading are doing it again! They&#8217;re giving away Funnix Beginning Math for free throughout the month of June 2011. Funnix Beginning Math is a 100-lesson computer program designed for children who have not learned beginning math operations. One can download the program from the Funnix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching spelling promotes general literacy</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2011/05/09/teaching-spelling-promotes-general-literacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 15:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Using Encoding Instruction to Improve the Reading and SpellingPerformances of Elementary Students At Risk for Literacy Difficulties: A Best-Evidence Synthesis,&#8221; professsors Beverly Weiser and Patricia Mathes of Southern Methodist University reviewed of studies of the effects of spelling instruction on literacy performance and found that systematic instruction in helping students to convert speech into [...]]]></description>
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