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	<description>Are you concerend about your child's education in Prince William County?</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.
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/?p=1386</guid>
		<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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		<title>Merit Pay &#8211; In PWCS?!</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/merit-pay-in-pwcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWC School Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merit Pay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Compensation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merit pay may be rearing it&#8217;s ugly head in PWC schools.
An effort is currently underway in PWCS to revise the manner in which teachers are assessed and compensated.  The committee meeting to develop the revised performance plan will be presenting it&#8217;s recommendations to the school board later this Winter.  One widely rumored aspect of that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1379&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Overcrowding is Good &#8211; At Least in PWC</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/school-overcrowding-is-good-at-least-in-pwc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like Avendale, the proposed 300 &#8211; 500 home development in the rural crescent in Bristow, is back on the schedule for the PWC BOCS.
Our previous article, Let&#8217;s Cram More Kids Into Overcrowded Schools, discusses the development in more detail.
For families in the Bristow / Gainesville area this is a big deal.  Our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1376&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Cram More Kids Into Overcrowded Schools</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/lets-cram-more-kids-into-overcrowded-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avendale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Board of County Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BOCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lived in Prince William County for most of my adult life.  For some reason this county always seems to make really stupid planning decisions.  Like over building in one part of the county without having the services like  fire and rescue and schools to support the populations moving in.  And we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1364&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on PWC 2009 SOL Scores</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/more-on-pwc-2009-sol-scores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state breaks SOL rates into a number of categories &#8211; All, Male and Female, LEP and Not LEP, Economically Disadvantaged and Not Economically Disadvantaged, and others.
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students are required to take the Math SOL and to have their scores aggregated into the overall (All) scores for the school they attend. LEP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1300&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calculators, for Kindergarten Kids, in VA?</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/calculators-for-kindergarten-kids-in-va/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re wondering what to get your 5 year old this year for Christmas or his / her birthday, you might want to consider a calculator.    In Virginia calculators are a major part of our elementary mathematics curriculum,  starting in Kindergarten.
Yes, Kindergarten.
The 2009 revision of the Math Standards of Learning removed calculators from the standards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1312&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pay for Play &#8211; In PWC High Schools?</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/pay-for-play-in-pwcs-high-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to End “Pay-To-Play” in PWCS
Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, Kleenex and poster board – what do these have to do with academic success in high school?
A lot more than you may think for children in PWCS.  To cope with the effects of budget cuts resulting in things like increased class sizes and lack of textbooks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1305&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Got 5th graders?  Better Get a Calculator</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/got-5th-graders-better-get-a-calculator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a 5th grade student in PWC,  you better make sure he /she has a calculator.  Because the PWCS Investigations based curriculum for grade 5 is all about calculators.

The Virginia SOLs suggest that elementary students should be familiar with all technology, including calculators and computers.  That suggestion has engendered a bit of controversy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&blog=5763624&post=1288&subd=pwceducationreform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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