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		<title>Three Pro-Public School Posts to Make You Smile</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If progressives want to improve schools, we shouldn’t empty them out. We ought to flood them with our kids, and then debate vociferously what they ought to be doing.&#8221; These are the concluding lines of Dana Goldstein&#8217;s inspection of the progressive credentials of politically liberal homeschoolers in Slate (Liberals, Don&#8217;t Homeschool Your Kids, February 16, 2012). While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=900&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Hyperactive Parenting Trends and the Fight of the Shrinking Middle Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more parents of at-least-modest means are taking their children&#8217;s education into their own hands. Without further ado, four trends: 1. Homeschooling (a.k.a. “DIY Education”) In Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education (Newsweek/Daily Beast, January 30, 2012), education writer Linda Perlstein interviews homeschooling moms &#8211; only moms &#8211; who answer the &#8220;why&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=856&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why American Parents Are Inferior</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s remarkable how social supports for the middle class are shrugged off in this new article in the Wall Street Journal about middle class parenting anxiety in America and what dumb Americans can learn from the French. (&#8220;Why French Parents Are Superior&#8221; by Pamela Druckerman, author of Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=875&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Invited! The New Mercury Readings, Saturday 1/28 @ The Wind-up Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baltimore writer and teacher John Barry (my husband) and Baltimore author Deborah Rudacille (my friend) have been curating a nonfiction reading series in Baltimore since 2010. It&#8217;s called The New Mercury Readings, after the endlessly quotable H.L. Mencken&#8216;s magazine, the American Mercury. It promises &#8220;Nothing but the Truth.&#8221; John learned all about truth in journalism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=842&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Kids Are Too Good for Public School, and Other Messages I Wish Wealthy Parents Wouldn&#8217;t Telegraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was inspired by two pieces – one local, one not – published January 13. Tell me if you don&#8217;t see a connection: 1) “Sending Kids to City Schools Still a Concern,” a feature story by Adam Bednar for North Baltimore Patch, and 2) “America’s Dangerously Removed Elite,” an opinion by David Sirota for Salon.com Read the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=812&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Thought Evolution of a City Mom: Backstory (2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was minding my own business the other day when an African-American man &#8211; a critic &#8211; tweeted at me about the first line of this post: &#8221;&#8216;I hadn&#8217;t much thought about the racial dimensions of education reform before October 20, 2011,&#8217;&#8221; he mocked, &#8220;are you serious?&#8221; Well, yes. (Though me not giving something &#8220;much thought&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=759&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Thread: &#8220;If I Were a Poor Black Kid&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, on December 12, Gene Marks came out with &#8220;If I Were a Poor Black Kid,&#8221; the most incendiary education post of 2011. Which is no small feat, given that it&#8217;s almost Christmas. Here&#8217;s the link, if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet. And here&#8217;s a rebuttal, by Kelly Virella from Dominion of New York. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=752&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Baltimore Fishbowl with Morgan State&#8217;s Ray Winbush &#8211; Outtakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn’t much thought about the racial dimensions of education reform before October 20, 2011, when I went to the Enoch Pratt Free Library for an event put together by the Open Society Institute-Baltimore. They have been running a series of discussions called “Talking About Race.” The twelfth – on educating black boys – seemed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=688&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neighborhood Public Schools Are Where It&#8217;s At</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some brain food to tide you over between now and the end of Thanksgiving Weekend. (I&#8217;m going on vacation.) There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff on the problems with top-down education reform in Dana Goldstein&#8216;s extended essay on Occupy Wall Street and public education, published yesterday in The Awl. Here&#8217;s the choicest bit: &#8230; the 1-percent education reformers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=682&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CEO Andrés Alonso Promotes the Push for School Choice in Baltimore City</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CEO Andrés A. Alonso, Ed.D., sent out an email on November 9 with the subject line &#8220;Great Event: Please Join Me on Saturday November 19!&#8221; It&#8217;s the School Choice Fair. And it&#8217;s his favorite. This is my favorite City Schools event because it offers a glimpse—like no other occasion or news release can—into the incredible range [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editbarry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21848314&amp;post=674&amp;subd=editbarry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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