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		<title>Hey kids, what do O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman, and RuPaul have in common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, three white male teachers at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School in South LA think that O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman, and RuPaul are appropriate role models and should have been paraded during a Black History Month celebration.  Wadsworth&#8217;s students are largely black and Latino.  This is more than just a case of &#8220;poor judgment.&#8221; First, the mere fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=623&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers and Students Lose, again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to my local NPR station this morning, as part of my usual routine.  The host, Steve Inskeep, talked about the controversial mass firing of educators a local high school in Central Falls, Rhode Island, effective at the end of the school year.  Apparently, only 7% of juniors scored proficient on the state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=618&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Were You a Part of Education-Twitter history &#8211; via EducationCEO&#8217;s blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t &#8220;tweet in&#8221; last night, but EducationCEO was there.  Check out her reflection on her blog.  I am fascinated by the power of technology to bring a group of people together and discuss such a critical issue as Black Education.  If you missed it or just want to go back to it, check out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=613&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School district reacts to &#8220;George Carlin&#8217;s famous &#8220;seven dirty words&#8221; and yanks dictionaries from classrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the District Dossier, an Education Week blog, the Menifee Union School District in California recently removed all Merriam-Webster dictionaries from its classrooms. Why? Let&#8217;s see what the news media has to report. Menifee school officials remove dictionary over term &#8220;oral sex.&#8221; Read the article, here. Dictionaries removed from Menifee classroom: books are being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=601&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science and Math is Great, But Let&#8217;s Teach Our Students to READ</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, let&#8217;s note the obvious in this photo and then move on &#8212; White women.  Where are the men?  Where are the men of color (Call Me Mister)? Where are the women of color? Now, I understand why, as a nation, we are looking to strengthen our math and science intellectual capital.  I understand the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=598&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear EducationCEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear EducationCEO, Like you, I am up at 2 in the morning!  I checked my phone and saw that I had an e-mail notification alerting me to a new post on your blog.  The title intrigued me, &#8220;Let me set the record straight &#8230;&#8221;  I couldn&#8217;t resisit!  However, please forgive my middle-of-the-night, my laptop-battery-is-low-and-I-don&#8217;t-feel-like-fetching-my-powercord-in-the-next-room brief response to one thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=592&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$250 Credit for College!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College), recognized as one of America&#8217;s &#8220;Top Up-and-Coming Schools&#8221; and &#8220;Great Schools, Great Prices&#8221; in U. S. News &#38; World Report&#8217;s newly released 2010 edition of &#8220;America&#8217;s Best Colleges&#8221; is a small liberal arts university located in northern Baltimore County.  In the &#8220;News&#8221; section of its website, Stevenson advertises: Visit Stevenson&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=588&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WORDS</title>
		<link>http://smurray79.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love words.  Here are my top 5 from the weekend, in no particular order:   1. Ennoble 2. Indomitable 3. Virulent 4. Innumerable 5. Basilisk Posted in Personal, Word of the Day Tagged: linkedin<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=584&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>H1N1 Vaccine to Protect District Budgets?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas school districts are waiting to hear whether the state will provide special relief for low attendance as a result of the swine flu.  School funding in Texas, like other states, is tied to student daily attendance.  Average Daily Attendance (ADA), according to federal legislation, is the aggregate number of days of attendance of all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=581&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Teach?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha A. Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education reveal their reasons for wanting to teach.  To the teachers out there: Why did you want to enter the teaching profession? Why do you remain in the teaching profession? Posted in Career, Teachers<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smurray79.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4685894&amp;post=580&amp;subd=smurray79&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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