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	<title>Comments on: Cheated: Sham Education for Minority Students in Dem-Run Philadelphia</title>
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		<title>By: kasandra</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meant &quot;Every inner city school teacher....&quot; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meant &quot;Every inner city school teacher&#8230;.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: kasandra</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While not a big fan of teachers unions, I do have to side with Phil.  Every inner city school I&#039;ve ever known has told me the same thing.  The parents of the few kids doing well show up for parent/teacher conferences and back-to-school nights.  The parents of kids not doing well don&#039;t show up at all.  If parents aren&#039;t going to be involved with their children&#039;s education they&#039;re just cooking up a big old pot of failure for their kids. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While not a big fan of teachers unions, I do have to side with Phil.  Every inner city school I&#039;ve ever known has told me the same thing.  The parents of the few kids doing well show up for parent/teacher conferences and back-to-school nights.  The parents of kids not doing well don&#039;t show up at all.  If parents aren&#039;t going to be involved with their children&#039;s education they&#039;re just cooking up a big old pot of failure for their kids. </p>
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		<title>By: JacksonPearson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He&#039;s been the most damaging person to ever hold the presidency.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He&#039;s been the most damaging person to ever hold the presidency.  </p>
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		<title>By: davarino</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And you point is? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And you point is? </p>
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		<title>By: Lady_Dr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly right.  Teachers is the states are overpaid, and the fact is that while not all teachers are stupid, all the stupid people get &#039;education degrees&#039; because in most universities they cannot get into any other college on campus, hence the &quot;education college&quot; is generally considered the intellectual sewer.  And if you must know the reality in the states, in Israel and in most places is that a high percentage of teachers are young, clueless girls who get a degree in education (the easiest degree to get) and really don&#039;t know that much, are not very academically gifted, and drift off to some other field or get married and leave after a few years.  Most public school teachers don&#039;t deserve to make much because they are barely educated and aren&#039;t qualified to do anything really, including teaching. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Exactly right.  Teachers is the states are overpaid, and the fact is that while not all teachers are stupid, all the stupid people get &#039;education degrees&#039; because in most universities they cannot get into any other college on campus, hence the &quot;education college&quot; is generally considered the intellectual sewer.  And if you must know the reality in the states, in Israel and in most places is that a high percentage of teachers are young, clueless girls who get a degree in education (the easiest degree to get) and really don&#039;t know that much, are not very academically gifted, and drift off to some other field or get married and leave after a few years.  Most public school teachers don&#039;t deserve to make much because they are barely educated and aren&#039;t qualified to do anything really, including teaching. </p>
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		<title>By: aussiejules</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[aussiejules]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good comments... schools are broken because of tenure , unions and politicization . 
But even private schools don&#039;t really teach many useful skills.  
Teaching needs to become decentralized and anybody with a passion shld be able to teach. This is all covered by John gat to in his book&quot; weapons of mass instruction&quot; . Cheers from Australia .  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good comments&#8230; schools are broken because of tenure , unions and politicization .<br />
But even private schools don&#039;t really teach many useful skills.<br />
Teaching needs to become decentralized and anybody with a passion shld be able to teach. This is all covered by John gat to in his book&quot; weapons of mass instruction&quot; . Cheers from Australia .  </p>
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		<title>By: WilliamJamesWard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very good points Jeff.....................William ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very good points Jeff&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;William </p>
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		<title>By: WilliamJamesWard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is just the icing on a cake that went flat in the oven..................William ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He is just the icing on a cake that went flat in the oven&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;William </p>
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		<title>By: AnOrdinaryMan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   I&#039;m sure most teachers in Israel are very dedicated, most of the time. But my well-meaning criticism DOES show that life in Israel is hard, and most Israelis have to struggle to make a bare subsistence living. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM....by the way, go jump off a cliff...and see if I care.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>   I&#039;m sure most teachers in Israel are very dedicated, most of the time. But my well-meaning criticism DOES show that life in Israel is hard, and most Israelis have to struggle to make a bare subsistence living. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM&#8230;.by the way, go jump off a cliff&#8230;and see if I care.  </p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil 
&quot;No matter how good a teacher is, the child still has to do homework and attend school regularly in order to learn.&quot; 
 
There is truth there. 
 
Still I was not impressed by students who were in college to be teachers.  If they had the same skills as other college grad I would say pay them as much.  But they don&#039;t.  The union leadership shows that too many teachers are dolts. 
 
Also make teachers work 11 months out of the year like in Europe. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phil<br />
&quot;No matter how good a teacher is, the child still has to do homework and attend school regularly in order to learn.&quot; </p>
<p>There is truth there. </p>
<p>Still I was not impressed by students who were in college to be teachers.  If they had the same skills as other college grad I would say pay them as much.  But they don&#039;t.  The union leadership shows that too many teachers are dolts. </p>
<p>Also make teachers work 11 months out of the year like in Europe. </p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Also, the schools are focusing more on the tests than on learning, and they are focusing more on &quot;skills&quot; rather than creativity, love of knowledge, analysis, synthesis, critical thinking, memorization of facts, etc....everything that used to mean that one was becoming educated (vague as that goal might sound).  It&#039;s a debacle.  My solution: less phony testing, more back to basics, more determination to master a &quot;body of knowledge,&quot; more caring about one&#039;s fellow man, and more truth.  Personally, I don&#039;t expect any of this to happen.  Rather, we are going to see more and more decline.  Where will it end?  Probably I agree with William Butler Yeats, who was agreeing with the Bible...it will probably end with the Second Coming ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Also, the schools are focusing more on the tests than on learning, and they are focusing more on &quot;skills&quot; rather than creativity, love of knowledge, analysis, synthesis, critical thinking, memorization of facts, etc&#8230;.everything that used to mean that one was becoming educated (vague as that goal might sound).  It&#039;s a debacle.  My solution: less phony testing, more back to basics, more determination to master a &quot;body of knowledge,&quot; more caring about one&#039;s fellow man, and more truth.  Personally, I don&#039;t expect any of this to happen.  Rather, we are going to see more and more decline.  Where will it end?  Probably I agree with William Butler Yeats, who was agreeing with the Bible&#8230;it will probably end with the Second Coming </p>
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		<title>By: JacksonPearson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JacksonPearson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope.  Not for America he isn&#039;t. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nope.  Not for America he isn&#039;t. </p>
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		<title>By: Jay</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s never the teachers fault. Funny, they sound just like Obama. The education establishment either created stupid students or they created the stupid parents who don&#039;t care about education. Either way, its their fault. The education establishment owns kids for 35-40 hours per week from K-12. Assuming an hour before school and 4 hours after, the parents spend less time with their kids than Big Education. Throw in before/after-care, school activities etc and the time parents spend with their kids is negligible. Since the state is effectively raising kids in the public school systems, THEY are the bad parents. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s never the teachers fault. Funny, they sound just like Obama. The education establishment either created stupid students or they created the stupid parents who don&#039;t care about education. Either way, its their fault. The education establishment owns kids for 35-40 hours per week from K-12. Assuming an hour before school and 4 hours after, the parents spend less time with their kids than Big Education. Throw in before/after-care, school activities etc and the time parents spend with their kids is negligible. Since the state is effectively raising kids in the public school systems, THEY are the bad parents. </p>
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		<title>By: rob</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These same attitudes have produced our first affirmative action president. He&#039;s working out great, isn&#039;t he? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These same attitudes have produced our first affirmative action president. He&#039;s working out great, isn&#039;t he? </p>
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		<title>By: Rob</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How right you are! Because we, as a society cannot look at the root causes, we spend all of our time, resources, and money, looking for solutions in places other than where the problem actually lies. We&#039;ve become willfully blind &amp; there for stupid. How&#039;s that working out?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How right you are! Because we, as a society cannot look at the root causes, we spend all of our time, resources, and money, looking for solutions in places other than where the problem actually lies. We&#8217;ve become willfully blind &amp; there for stupid. How&#8217;s that working out?</p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt; it wasn&#039;t unions that caused the near depression that we still are in. &lt;/i&gt; 
They aren&#039;t the solution, either.  However, the near-depression was caused by Rep. Barney Frank, and Sen. Chris Dodd. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i> it wasn&#039;t unions that caused the near depression that we still are in. </i><br />
They aren&#039;t the solution, either.  However, the near-depression was caused by Rep. Barney Frank, and Sen. Chris Dodd. </p>
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		<title>By: davarino</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whats a depression got to do with the subject at hand. We havent started talking about the profligate spending of the big city schools. We are only talking about their performance. 
 
So tell me, since you were an administrator, did you see or approve of, or help in changing schools test scores? Did you see how they may have dumbed down the tests in order to make themselves look good instead of making sure the children received a good education? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whats a depression got to do with the subject at hand. We havent started talking about the profligate spending of the big city schools. We are only talking about their performance. </p>
<p>So tell me, since you were an administrator, did you see or approve of, or help in changing schools test scores? Did you see how they may have dumbed down the tests in order to make themselves look good instead of making sure the children received a good education? </p>
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		<title>By: Guest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an important series of expos&#233;s on the appalling state of urban education. There are, however, some green shoots of hope for school kids in Philadelphia:   &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edchoice.org/School-Choice/State/PA.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.edchoice.org/School-Choice/State/PA.as...&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/philly-catholic-schools-get-the-miracle-of-memphis/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/philly-catho...&lt;/a&gt; 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an important series of expos&eacute;s on the appalling state of urban education. There are, however, some green shoots of hope for school kids in Philadelphia:   <a href="http://www.edchoice.org/School-Choice/State/PA.aspx" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.edchoice.org/School-Choice/State/PA.as" rel="nofollow">http://www.edchoice.org/School-Choice/State/PA.as</a>&#8230;  <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/philly-catholic-schools-get-the-miracle-of-memphis/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/philly-catho" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/philly-catho</a>&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: SCREW SOCIALISM</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SCREW SOCIALISM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELIMINATE TENURE FOR TEACHERS. 
 
Why should a teacher be a special class exempt from performance reviews and market pressures? 
 
Incompetent teachers, teachers whose students do not perform better on standardized tests need to be eliminated. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ELIMINATE TENURE FOR TEACHERS. </p>
<p>Why should a teacher be a special class exempt from performance reviews and market pressures? </p>
<p>Incompetent teachers, teachers whose students do not perform better on standardized tests need to be eliminated. </p>
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		<title>By: al222</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[two questions:  
1. where does a nearly bankrupt school system get the money for a catered buffet? 
2. who do you think taught the irresponsible parents to be irresponsible parents? 
 
and as far as the unions go, they&#039;ve been promising reform--for the last 50 years, and we&#039;re still waiting ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>two questions:<br />
1. where does a nearly bankrupt school system get the money for a catered buffet?<br />
2. who do you think taught the irresponsible parents to be irresponsible parents? </p>
<p>and as far as the unions go, they&#039;ve been promising reform&#8211;for the last 50 years, and we&#039;re still waiting </p>
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