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		<title>Blog has Moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Redirect your PhillySchoolSearch RSS Subscription</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to the runaway success of this blog, we moved off of wordpress.com and onto our own new domain–phillyschoolsearch.com!  All of your bookmarks should work, but if you are reading this post in an RSS reader, you need to redirect your subscription to http://feeds.feedburner.com/PhillySchoolSearch<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phillyschoolsearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10847908&amp;post=486&amp;subd=phillyschoolsearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make Every School a Charter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Beth Hertz (a.k.a. mbteach on Twitter) over on the Philly Teacher blog recently posted a very thought provoking article&#8211;A New Model for School Reform: Could it Work?. With all the talk of Charters and Renaissance schools lately, it was great to read such a well thought out and well articulated model of school reform. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phillyschoolsearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10847908&amp;post=411&amp;subd=phillyschoolsearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s post, the first of a series outlining what makes a school successful, I started the article by stating that I was unhappy that teachers are disproportionately punished for bad performance in schools. Newsweek&#8217;s cover story this week is titled &#8220;Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers&#8221; tells the other side of the story&#8211;that teachers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phillyschoolsearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10847908&amp;post=455&amp;subd=phillyschoolsearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Success Criteria Vol 1: Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the news lately there has been a lot of talk of underperforming &#8220;Renaissance&#8221; schools who will forced to dismiss many of their teachers.  On the one hand, I applaud the attempt to shock our worst schools into improvement.  On the other hand, I am dismayed that the teachers are being disproportionately punished for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phillyschoolsearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10847908&amp;post=339&amp;subd=phillyschoolsearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone gets on the waitlist: ICS #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marta Rowh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you apply to Independence Charter School you will get a spot on the waitlist.   They pick every last name out of the box.  This year the waitlist was somewhere around 380 spots long.   Getting off the waitlist is another issue: 1-10 will likely get a spot, 10-20 still very promising, 20-30 is possible, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phillyschoolsearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10847908&amp;post=445&amp;subd=phillyschoolsearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Local: Activism For Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commenting on my recent post &#8220;Having Your Cake and Eating it Too&#8221; one reader posted a link to an article on the A Good Day Teaching Blog entitled Why Don&#8217;t Liberals Really Like Poor Children?. The crux of the linked article can be summed up in one statement.  The author states that liberal parents &#8220;believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phillyschoolsearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10847908&amp;post=413&amp;subd=phillyschoolsearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lower Merion School District Paradox</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drawing the school districting lines for the Lower Merion School District (LMSD) last year was a contentious issue, involving loud town hall meetings, angry allegations of racism, lawsuits, and now a federal investigation.  Should that controversy be a factor in whether to move to LMSD for the schools?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phillyschoolsearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10847908&amp;post=259&amp;subd=phillyschoolsearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comprehensive Directory of Philadelphia Charter Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia School District&#8217;s Charter School website is helpful, but the Directory of Philadelphia Charter Schools (PDF) published by the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition is much better. It contains a lot of great school data, including the mission of each school, demographic/test score data, contact information, and more. It also has special sections on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phillyschoolsearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10847908&amp;post=405&amp;subd=phillyschoolsearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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