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		<title>Using and Abusing Analogies: The Homeschool Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dana&#8217;s got a new piece taking homeschool analogies to pieces, in Heart of the Matter.
Feel free to post other analogies that annoy you in the comments here, especially if you can put your finger on what&#8217;s wrong with them.  (Extra points for funny!)  
Well-working analogies welcome too, if you know some.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Now! Top Five Thinkers for Our Times</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And hurry, voting ends next week!
Pick your top choices from 100 nominated public intellectuals worldwide, or write in your own favorite. It&#8217;s your chance to think about the &#8220;Thinkers
Shaping the Tenor of Our Times&#8221; &#8212; and make your thinking part of those times.

Not that I&#8217;d dream of influencing anyone; Thinking Parents think for themselves and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Important Stuff School Doesn&#8217;t Teach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the same &#8220;preemptive&#8221; do-it-yourself rules apply to learning philanthropy, then, that apply to everything else?  School is not just unnecessary but obstructionist to education, if the main goal really is to chart your own best course, to learn how to  be happy and productive with in your own life, in your own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unboxing Our Lizard Brains: Can You At Least Think About It?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd,”
William Wordsworth said in the 19th century.
. . .The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.
“This breaks the major rule in the American belief system — that anyone can do anything”. . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Mark This National Day of Reason . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida&#8217;s academic freedom bill is dead; long live academic freedom!  
I heard the good news on local public radio coverage of the end of session. Here&#8217;s the Discovery Institute&#8217;s version, poor things, bet they&#8217;re cross:
Are Florida&#8217;s House Republicans Trying to Sabotage Evolution Academic Freedom Bill?
Florida citizens who support academic freedom legislation on evolution might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doc Finds Name That Fits School Sock Puppets &#8220;Laden&#8221; With Logic Disorders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great parody of Greg Laden&#8217;s anti-homeschool piousness passing as critical thought, over at Alasandra&#8217;s &#8212; if you can stomach the Tiny Cat Pants-style side show spectacle he&#8217;s staging in her comments. I still find it pretty tawdry but it IS hard not to gawk in disgusted fascination . . . .
Here&#8217;s the rotten vegetables he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About Hitting and Children</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we look ourselves in the mirror after putting up with things  like this in the headlines day after day?
Legal journey to begin  for children removed from Texas polygamist compound

Mea culpa: penitent Pope meets victims of sexual abuse by  priests



Lynn Paddock ordered books by a minister and his wife that recommended [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frisky cock of the snook to Don at the Gookins for the latter, and to Favorite Daughter for the former.
I connect these in my own mind &#8212; small towns and big hearts, racial and social and economic justice, words and music and story with real meaning for real people, characters we care enough about to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hands Off the Hands-On in School Math??</title>
		<link>http://cockingasnook.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/hands-off-the-hands-on-in-school-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m not explaining, just reporting this: 
Dr. Kaminski and her colleagues Vladimir M. Sloutsky and Andrew F. Heckler did something relatively rare in education research: they performed a randomized, controlled experiment. Their results appear in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.
Though the experiment tested college students, the researchers suggested that their findings might also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doc Kicks Jack As[s] Representative Homeschool Critic</title>
		<link>http://cockingasnook.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/doc-kicks-jack-ass-representative-homeschool-critic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Homeschooling critics, haven’t they learned anything?&#8221;:
I’m going to flame Jack’s stupid “essay” to make an analogy between his ignorance, and the ignorance he fears some homeschool children are being taught. . .Jack is what I like to call an “edutard”.
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		<title>Just Because He&#8217;s Cute!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angus the Highland Bear from The Scotweb Store:

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		<title>Doing a Favor for a Friend</title>
		<link>http://cockingasnook.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/doing-a-favor-for-a-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . .is what has kept me from posting much lately but also why I&#8217;m posting right now.
(Nance made a special request for a new post to bump that ugly art off the top!)
The other favor is about education and Nance will think it&#8217;s cool, I predict, as soon as I get time to go [...]]]></description>
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