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		<title>Education Revolution E-News 27.09.2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/09/27/education-revolution-e-news-27-09-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Revolution E-News 27.09.2010   Online Courses Start Today! (COURSE) Fall issue of Education Revolution (Magazine) Democratic charter school needs letters of support (REQUEST) Clearance Titles (SALE) Scientifically Tested Tests (OPNION) Poverty hurts learning: Schools matter, but they&#8217;re not all that matters (COMMENTARY) Poverty&#8217;s Disadvantage (OPINION) Give Students Opportunity to Practice Democracy (OPINION]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition to testing grows both sides of the Atlantic</title>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2009/04/09/opposition-to-testing-grows-both-sides-of-the-atlantic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent mutterings about testing boycotts in England appears to be growing. It was interesting then to read in AERO&#8217;s April 7 e-news about mounting opposition to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) strategy and  testing in the USA. Opting Out of NCLB: Two Reports from a Growing Movement It seems that we practically have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times: College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs</title>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2008/09/22/new-york-times-college-panel-calls-for-less-focus-on-sats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SARA RIMER. Published: September 21, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22admissions.html?_r=1&#38;th&#38;emc=th&#38;oref=slogin A commission convened by some of the country’s most influential college admissions officials is recommending that colleges and universities move away from their reliance on SAT and ACT scores and shift toward admissions exams more closely tied to the high school curriculum and achievement. The commission’s report, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing to Destruction 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2008/05/13/testing-to-destruction-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual exam season is upon us along with the endless debates about testing regimes in the UK. Today the Select Committee Report suggests that SATs could be damaging the education system http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7396623.stm. Damaging consequences, narrowing of curriculum, no benefit to children or schools are all damning indictments but quite frankly hardly earth shatteringly new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing to Destruction</title>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2008/05/12/testing-to-destruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK schooling system is so wedded to testing that this last few days has seen comprehensive media coverage of the ridiculous pressure students are put under with the exams logjams. (see for example: Pupils feel exam logjam pressure http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7393715.stm Some students are subjected three and four exams throughout each day and over  successive days. Differing exam boards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students find their way around the NUT strike</title>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2008/04/29/students-find-their-way-around-the-nut-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 24 April, when teachers confirmed their first national strike in over 20 years, schools were locked and students were turned away from the school gates. For many students preparing to take tests and exams, this could have proved highly disruptive; not for the 800,000 SAM Learning users though.A record breaking 2,958,674 pages of [...]]]></description>
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