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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Education / Youth</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Filling the Void</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/filling-the-void/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/filling-the-void/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 18:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic ignorance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Barton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Marty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revisionist history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know I keep harping on the damage caused by Americans&#8217; ignorance of our most basic history and philosophy, but the evidence just keeps piling up. I&#8217;m pasting, below, a recent essay by noted religious historian Martin Marty, in which he weighs in on David Barton&#8211;a charlatan who has made a living by manufacturing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incomprehensible</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/incomprehensible/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/incomprehensible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creation Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United States is rooted in the Enlightenment&#8211;an era that gave us empiricism and the scientific method. Our approach to government was forged by philosophers who extolled reason and evidence. We have always looked up to scientists, and scientists&#8211;who are best able to pursue their ideas in an open culture&#8211;have historically flocked to our shores. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision Point</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/decision-point/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/decision-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats for Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Education Reform Now hosted a presentation and panel discussion at Central Library. The main speakers were a representative from the New Orleans system and David Harris, CEO of the Mind Trust; they were joined by two (very impressive) teachers currently working for IPS&#8211;one from Howe, a &#8220;traditional&#8221; school that has just been taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boobs and &#8220;Boobies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/boobs-and-boobies/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/boobs-and-boobies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boobies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I received a news release from the Indiana ACLU announcing the organization&#8217;s representation of a middle-school student. As the release recounted the facts of the case, &#160; The minor child, &#8220;L.G.,&#8221; is a student at Roosevelt Middle School, which is part of the Twin Lakes School Corporation in Monticello, Ind. In early January, school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortchanging Students</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/shortchanging-students/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/shortchanging-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, okay &#8230; I may be beating the proverbial dead horse here, but yesterday, a colleague shared an article written by the the president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, bemoaning the continuing elevation of what I&#8217;ve called &#8220;credentialing&#8221; over the sort of broad, liberal education that Americans used to recognize as an ideal. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Reform Basics</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/education-reform-basics/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/education-reform-basics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats for Education Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Brill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats for Education Reform is an important organization in our state. It&#8217;s composed of people&#8211;mostly, but not exclusively, Democrats&#8211;who want to approach education issues from the standpoint of what is best for children, and without the usual political constraints. (&#8220;Political constraints&#8221; in this context means automatic obeisance to the teachers&#8217; unions. The organization is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What We Don&#8217;t Know DOES Hurt Us&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/what-we-dont-know-does-hurt-us/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/what-we-dont-know-does-hurt-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elected officials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public deficit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was grading a research paper produced by  a graduate student who shares my concerns over civic literacy. The paper included a comprehensive review of available research on the topic, much of which confirmed what we had already known about the American public&#8217;s appalling deficit in basic knowledge of our government and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislative Whack-A-Mole</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/legislative-whack-a-mole/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/legislative-whack-a-mole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Kruse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I noted in yesterday&#8217;s post, our intrepid legislators are hard at work making fools of themselves on the taxpayers&#8217; dime. There&#8217;s the effort to ban the non-existent use of Sharia law by the state&#8217;s judiciary, a bill prescribing how school children must sing the Star Spangled Banner (no, I am not making that up&#8211;and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entering the Minefield</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/entering-the-minefield/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/entering-the-minefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reform proposal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mind Trust is one of those &#8220;do good&#8221; organizations that virtually everyone supports. It has spent its relatively brief organizational life doing work that is essentially uncontroversial&#8211;studying what sorts of methods work in the classroom, offering Fellowships to good teachers, and reminding the public generally about the importance of education to everything from economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schizo America</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/schizo-america/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/schizo-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed messages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been noticing how schizophrenic American politics are. We talk endlessly about democracy and the importance of citizen participation while we enthusiastically endorse efforts to erect barriers to voting; we celebrate the ideal of meritocracy while supporting economic policies that enrich the privileged at the expense of the poor; we lecture welfare recipients about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food for (Much) Thought</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/food-for-much-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/food-for-much-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satoristephen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I&#8217;m turning my space over to my son Stephen, who&#8217;s own blog post this morning offers much food for thought. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorance on Parade</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/ignorance-on-parade/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/ignorance-on-parade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social sciences]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Words fail. Is this what America is becoming&#8211;a society where the search for knowledge that is ultimately what makes us human&#8211;is displaced by training for worker ants? &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>But What About the Children?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/but-what-about-the-children/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/but-what-about-the-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama immigration law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dream Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see where a federal judge has upheld the part of Alabama&#8217;s harsh new immigration law that requires public schools to check the immigration status of all students. This is one more effort to punish the children of undocumented immigrants. What I find particularly galling about laws like this, and opposition to the Dream Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Threshold Questions</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/threshold-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/threshold-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education vs. Job training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for-profit colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rip-offs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Joe Nocera has the sort of superficially thoughtful opinion piece that increasingly characterizes America’s “chattering classes.” The essay is a defense of for-profit colleges. Nocera acknowledges the obvious: such colleges enroll only 12% of the nation’s college students, but gobble up 25% of all federal student aid; fewer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failing Econ 101</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/failing-econ-101/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/failing-econ-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic literacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If I had any doubts whatsoever about the pitiful state of economic literacy in this country, yesterday provided a perfect example. I was reviewing a paper submitted by a student to one of our faculty members. He had given her a poor grade, and she argued that she deserved higher marks. I am the Program [...]]]></description>
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