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		<title>&#8220;The Big Picture: Education is Everyone&#8217;s Buisness&#8221; ~Dennis Littky</title>
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I first read “The Big Picture: Education is Everyone’s Business” by Dennis Littky in my second year of teaching middle school math.  I was at a point of frustration with teaching.  I was praised by my administrators, and my students were scoring well on their state standardized tests.  But, I knew I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkoutsidethedesk.com/2010/07/01/the-big-picture-education-is-everyones-buisness-dennis-littky/</link>
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		<title>The School of Organic Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard of The School of Organic Education I assumed it was a newer school. It seemed that a new “organic” school would fit in nicely in our increasingly “green” society. Or, I thought, maybe it was founded in the back-to-nature era of the 60s or 70s. I was very surprised to find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkoutsidethedesk.com/2010/06/27/the-school-of-organic-education/</link>
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		<title>Schools Kill Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a teacher, I often hear the complaint (and often echo it in my own mind), “Kids today don’t know how to think. They don’t know how to problem solve. They don't have a thirst for knowledge. They don't think creatively.”  Of course there are many exceptions, but generally I agree. Today's students rarely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkoutsidethedesk.com/2010/06/15/schools-kill-creativity/</link>
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		<title>www.EducationRevolution.org</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How often do we get a phone call from someone these days?  How often do we get a phone call from someone we don’t know, who isn’t selling anything, who is content just to listen and answer questions?  I’d say it is pretty rare—very rare.  
A few months ago I read “How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkoutsidethedesk.com/2010/01/01/www-educationrevolution-org/</link>
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		<title>Animalogic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Christmas I had the most difficult time finding a gift for my 5-year old daughter. When I thought about what she and her younger sister played with the most, it was toss-up between the couch cushions and baby wipes. Strange, I know. They do, of course, enjoy an occasional play-dough session. And, every once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkoutsidethedesk.com/2009/12/31/animalogic/</link>
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		<title>The Brooklyn Free School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The very concept of a “free school” is intriguing to me.  What would really happen if we quit pushing education on children and instead let them learn what they wanted, when they wanted, and how they wanted?  One might assume that they’d end up wasting their day away and never learn to read, write, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkoutsidethedesk.com/2009/10/28/the-brooklyn-free-school/</link>
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		<title>New Gate School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought it fitting that the first "Think Outside the Desk" post should feature the school that opened my eyes to non-traditional education.  Four years ago a fellow parent at my daughter's daycare mentioned that her older son attended a Montessori school.   I had heard the word Montessori--vaguely remembered reading that it was self-directed learning.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkoutsidethedesk.com/2009/10/06/4/</link>
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