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		<title>students acting out: re/approaching service-learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so it&#8217;s been a pretty long time since I&#8217;ve sit down to write to this blog. Life keeps happening, and that&#8217;s a good thing, but sometimes it happens so quickly and with such intensity that it&#8217;s hard to find the time to pause for reflection&#8211;even though it is so very important. Historically, this time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>astra taylor on the unschooled life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astra Taylor is a 31-year-old Canadian-American filmmaker well known for her films Zizek and Examined Life. She is a writer as well, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines. In 2006, Filmmaker Magazine listed her as one of 25 new filmmakers to watch. Astra was unschooled until she was 13, an experience she says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>grading contracts, gastropods, and the occasional breakthrough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the semester is winding down and despite my best efforts to create a positive learning environment for all the participants in my class, I am still feeling a decent amount of animosity and negativity coming from my students. Such is the pattern, it seems, each semester. But still, I thought this semester would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gentle steps towards unschooling ourselves</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/05/01/gentle-steps-towards-unschooling-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 17:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just about over two years ago, Christine and I made a committed decision not to pursue traditional public or private school education for our son Aidan. Rather, we decided to homeschool. &#8220;Homeschool&#8221;&#8211;that&#8217;s what we called it &#160;Joyful Livingtentatively when we decided. It&#8217;s the most recognizable term referring to a wide array of alternative approaches toward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>homeschooling rocks!</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/09/06/homeschooling-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I started thinking about the kids in school and how they are there all day long and I started wondering how do they spend their time? This led to some conversations and someone that I was talking with told me how at one school kids start at 7:30 in the morning and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i don&#8217;t want to do math today</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/05/05/i-dont-want-to-do-math-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 03:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile I get this panic feeling when it comes to homeschooling. Even though we have thoughtfully and consciously made the decision regarding our approach I have these waves of uncertainty wondering are we doing this the &#8220;right&#8221; way. Typically these waves come after talks, or rather questions from others as to what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reading learning all the time by john holt</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2008/10/27/reading-learning-all-the-time-by-john-holt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/7/2008 Chris picked this book up the other day. As usual, I&#8217;ll post when I&#8217;ve gotten into it (or finished it) and when I have some time. For now though, this quote of Holt&#8217;s from the editor&#8217;s foreword caught my eye. Learning, to me, means making more sense of the world around us, and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why we homeschool: reason 3, what we don&#8217;t want our son to learn</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2008/05/20/why-we-homeschool-reason-3-what-we-dont-want-our-son-to-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 05:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of reasons why we have chosen to homeschool our son, but there are also a bunch of specific reasons why we choose not to subject our son to state institutionalized education—things he would likely learn there that we prefer he not learn. Here&#8217;s a short list of things we don&#8217;t want our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why we homeschool: reason 2, keeping it natural</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2008/04/28/why-we-homeschool-reason-2/</link>
		<comments>http://writing101.net/2008/04/28/why-we-homeschool-reason-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, class, we will be discussing Paulo Freire&#8217;s &#8220;The Banking Concept of Education.&#8221; I will tell you what I know about this essay over the next hour or so, you will write it down, and then soon I will test you on what I know about this essay. We only have 60 minutes to talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dumbing us down by john taylor gatto</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2008/04/26/dumbing-us-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gatto has some interesting ideas. I was first turned on to what he had to say when I read his essay &#8220;Against School&#8221; published in Harpers of September 2003. Dumbing Us Down is a collection of his speeches. I&#8217;ll be amending this post as I read the book. gatto&#8217;s seven lessons of schooling The front [...]]]></description>
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