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	<description>&#34;Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.&#34; ~John Dewey</description>
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		<title>On core standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article at Education Week echoes something I&#8217;ve been saying for quite some time: A call for national standards ensures that we continue doing what is most wrong with our bureaucratic schools (establish-prescribe-measure) and that we persist in looking away from the largest cause of low student achievement: childhood poverty. A call for national standards <a href="http://educatingerin.net/?p=69"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This space has been inactive for quite a while, but I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m going to get back to it. Just a quick update to start off: I got a job last year teaching 9th and 12th grade English at St. Mary&#8217;s High School in Lancaster, which is the school where I did my student <a href="http://educatingerin.net/?p=64"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Employed again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has certainly been a long time since I updated here! After finishing the long-term position last January, one of my contacts at that school led me to another long-term position, also in 8th grade. I finished out the year there, and had an overall very positive experience. Flash forward to August, when another <a href="http://educatingerin.net/?p=57"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My last day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, I finished up a long-term job. It wasn&#8217;t my first long-term job, but it was the first one that felt &#8220;real.&#8221; Maybe it was because I started at the beginning of the year, which gave me the chance to set up a classroom. Maybe it was because it was longer than any of <a href="http://educatingerin.net/?p=55"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Employment!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hired as a long-term sub, teaching 8th grade English language arts. I&#8217;ll be working until the end of November. Here&#8217;s hoping something else materializes in the meantime. Whee!]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching as a profession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t agree with everything this author has to say, but I do think that this was an excellent point: We have both a challenge and an opportunity before us. We cannot continue to fail children because recruiting and retaining new teachers is too hard. The key is in the support &#8212; America doesn&#8217;t treat <a href="http://educatingerin.net/?p=53"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New calligraphy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by my friend Eden&#8230;new baby gifts: Items can be purchased in my Etsy shop!]]></description>
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		<title>Etsy shop open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit me at my Etsy shop! Here&#8217;s a sampling of what you&#8217;ll see there:]]></description>
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		<title>Calligraphy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With wedding season coming upon us, I just wanted to remind you of my custom-designed Calligraphy gifts. More samples can be viewed here. Here&#8217;s a comment from the satisfied recipient of the piece pictured above: The photo does not even begin to do this piece justice. It is truly beautiful and Ben and I are <a href="http://educatingerin.net/?p=48"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plagiarism free!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m searching for some good websites I can direct my students to, for help in finding good argumentative essay topics. In my travels, I came across a site called Best Essays, one of the many, many &#8220;buy an essay from us&#8221; sites out there. What I find both amusing and troubling is that they pledge <a href="http://educatingerin.net/?p=47"><b>...Read the Rest</b></a>]]></description>
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