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		<title>Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Annie Lowrey, The New York Times WASHINGTON — Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings, according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2012/02/03/big-study-links-good-teachers-to-lasting-gain/</link>
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		<title>Academic Service-learning Across Disciplines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Academic Service-learning Across Disciplines: Models, Outcomes, and Assessment edited  by Jonathan H. Westover  is now available as part of The Learner series. While service-learning is not a new phenomenon, the popularity and usage of this “civically-engaged” experiential learning pedagogy has increased in educational settings in recent years. As we live in an increasingly hyper-competitive and interconnected globalized world, where consumers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2012/01/31/academic-service-learning-across-disciplines/</link>
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		<title>Early Learning: Supporting children by teaching the adults who shape their lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Elizabeth Gudrais, Harvard Magazine Sister Suzanne Deliee climbs the steps of the East Harlem brownstone, rings a bell, and is buzzed in. The visiting nurse has come to see Susana Saldivar and her four-week-old son, Xavier. He was born prematurely, at 33 weeks, and as Deliee asks questions, it becomes clear Saldivar is nervous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2012/01/29/early-learning-supporting-children-by-teaching-the-adults-who-shape-their-lives/</link>
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		<title>The One-Shot society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Economist ON NOVEMBER 10th South Korea went silent. Aircraft were grounded. Offices opened late. Commuters stayed off the roads. The police stood by to deal with emergencies among the students who were taking their university entrance exams that day. Every year the country comes to a halt on the day of the exams, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2012/01/25/the-one-shot-society/</link>
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		<title>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland&#8217;s School Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Anu Partanen, The Atlantic Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West&#8217;s reigning education superpower, Finland. Trouble is, when it comes to the lessons that Finnish schools have to offer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2012/01/21/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/</link>
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		<title>In Washington, Large Rewards in Teacher Pay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Dillon, The New York Times WASHINGTON — During her first six years of teaching in this city’s struggling schools, Tiffany Johnson got a series of small raises that brought her annual salary to $63,000, from about $50,000. This year, her seventh, Ms. Johnson earns $87,000. That latest 38 percent jump, unheard of in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2012/01/17/in-washington-large-rewards-in-teacher-pay/</link>
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		<title>Rules to Stop Pupil and Teacher From Getting Too Social Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Preston, The New York Times Faced with scandals and complaints involving teachers who misuse social media, school districts across the country are imposing strict new guidelines that ban private conversations between teachers and their students on cellphones and online platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The policies come as educators deal with a wide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2011/12/27/rules-to-stop-pupil-and-teacher-from-getting-too-social-online/</link>
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		<title>Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephanie Saul, The New York Times By almost every educational measure, the Agora Cyber Charter School is failing. Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math. Nearly 50 percent trail in reading. A third do not graduate on time. And hundreds of children, from kindergartners to seniors, withdraw within months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2011/12/23/profits-and-questions-at-online-charter-schools/</link>
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		<title>When An Adult Took Standardized Tests Forced on Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Marion Brady, The Washington Post A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took versions of his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he’d make his scores public. By [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2011/12/19/when-an-adult-took-standardized-tests-forced-on-kids/</link>
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		<title>Lines Grow Long for Free School Meals, Thanks to Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sam Dillon, The New York Times Millions of American schoolchildren are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents, many once solidly middle class, have lost jobs or homes during the economic crisis, qualifying their families for the decades-old safety-net program. The number of students receiving subsidized lunches rose to 21 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thelearner.com/2011/12/15/lines-grow-long-for-free-school-meals-thanks-to-economy/</link>
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