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	<description>Are you concerend about your child's education in Prince William County?</description>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; 2011 School Year Calendar</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/2010-2011-school-year-calendar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The school district will present the proposed 2010 &#8211; 2011 school year calendar at the December 2 school board meeting.  You can find the full calendar here.  Highlights include:

School starts on Tuesday September 7, 2010 and ends on Friday June 17, 2011
Christmas (or Winter) Break begins with a half day on Wednesday December [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1425&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Eve Walk For Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while you meet someone who does everything he / she can to make the lives of others better.  Austin Haynes is one of those people.  He&#8217;s a local realtor and this Christmas Eve will be walking 75 to every Boys and Girls Club in the area to raise funds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1422&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Case of The Missing Test Scores</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/the-case-of-the-missing-test-scores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will Prince William County Schools be presenting the 2008 / 2009 school year results of it&#8217;s Math Investigations program?  
Each year PWCS students in 1st and 2nd grade take the SDMT exam and parents, teachers, and administrators complete a lengthy survey gauging their opinions about the math program, at considerable cost to county [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1420&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never Cease to Remember&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/never-cease-to-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/?p=1417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[November 19, 1863
Gettysburg, PA
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1417&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great night to watch for falling stars</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/great-night-to-watch-for-falling-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems the Leonid metro shower will be peaking tonight through Wednesday.  With clouds expected Wednesday, it seems like Tuesday will be the best night to go out and look for falling stars.  
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		<title>Thanksgiving Week Early Closing Schedule</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/thanksgiving-week-early-closing-schedule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you forgot, Thanksgiving will be upon us soon.  Prince William County Schools will be close early on Wednesday the 25th and will be closed on Thursday the 26th and Friday the 27th.  The Wednesday early closing schedule has been released by the school district and can be found here.
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		<title>Rigorous Standards are Part of the Battle</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/rigorous-standards-are-part-of-the-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Academic Standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent release if the NGA&#8217;s Common College Readiness Standards there&#8217;s been quite a bit of emphasis on academic standards lately.  But tough, appropriate standards are only half of the battle.   We also have to be concerned with how the standards are implemented.
Take Virginia, and its Standards of Learning.
In its recent revision of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1404&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Common Core &#8220;College Ready&#8221; Standards Inadequate</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/common-core-college-ready-standards-inadequate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago the National Governor&#8217;s Association, as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, issued a draft of it&#8217;s &#8220;College Readiness&#8221; standards.  These standards claim to provide the essential mathematical skills necessary for High School  students to move onto college level mathematics courses.
Unfortunately, the standards do nothing of the sort.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1394&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seems the Teach Math Right Petition was Correct&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/seems-the-teach-math-right-petition-was-correct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Teach Math Right petition states the following as documented deficiencies of TERC Investigations:
DOCUMENTED DEFICIENCIES OF “Investigations”:
•   DOES NOT teach proven standard, simple efficient and effective methods of solving mathematics problems.
•   DOES NOT promote mastery of basic arithmetic facts.
•   DOES NOT teach mastery of multiplication tables.
•   DOES [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1390&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TERC Investigations Doesn&#8217;t &#8220;Do&#8221; Division</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/terc-investigations-doesnt-do-division/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of TERC Investigations many shortfalls is the fact that it just doesn&#8217;t teach division well.  In fact, it barely teaches division at all.  The division materials covered in 5th grade are all largely supplemental.  Long division, by the way, is covered in a single 75 minute class. PWCS must be extremely thankful that calculators [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1386&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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