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		<title>WEST-E</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WEST &#8211; E
This has to be one of the most ridiculous and counterintuitive tests I have taken. 110 multiple choice questions that test a teacher&#8217;s knowledge of LA content and pedagogy. Those who have never encountered students will do better on this exam because the tenor of the questions clearly show an assumptions that students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Another interview&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just completed another interview. This is for a night school job. It is so humbling to have to go back and explain why you are good at your job. This one had an interesting start; a question that was functionally incoherent. &#8220;How do you want to enhance your teaching?&#8221; What? Is this a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Bonk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished one of the funniest an most informative books I have read in a long time. Bonk, by Mary Roach, is a ribald and articulate survey of the science of sex. Roach has a keen eye for irony and is able contextualize her wide ranging research in such a way make the content [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Long time &#8211; no post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the list of books on the last post gives me a sense of how long it has been since I have posted anything. In that time E has undergone a career shift (from designer to doula) and I have been been laid off from my job. December seems a lifetime ago.
I do not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=25</link>
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		<title>On the Bookshelf &#8211; December 08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is what we are reading over this snowy Holiday Break:
Deep Survival &#8211; Laurence Gonzales
The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union &#8211; Michael Chabon
The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind &#8211; David Gutterson
The Satanic Verses &#8211; Salman Rushdie
The Lost Highway &#8211; David Adams Richards
Several Mysteries by Tony Hillerman
A couple of Mafia Sagas by Mario Puzo
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		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Back to School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After three days of &#8220;professional development&#8221; school is finally going to start. The three days of meetings that proceed the first days of school are usually a mind numbing expedition into the oxymoronic. This year was, however, a marked improvement. 3 out of our 4 administrators did simple things to make their sessions relevant and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=17</link>
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		<title>Poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always liked the poetry of Gary Snyder. He is, most of the time, without pretension and speaks in a clear voice of things that I feel a deep affection for. I have been reading Danger on the Peaks, a collection of poems and prose meditations published in 2004.  I wanted to share [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=16</link>
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		<title>WASL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The teacher next door was suspended last week for refusing to proctor the WASL. He argues that it is damaging to students, teachers, schools and families. (You can read his thoughts here.) His actions grow out of personal frustration with his own articulation of problems with WASL yet his complicity in the very problem he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not really a media opinion. It is more of a rant about the way that the term research gets used in the formation of public education policy.
The term research has ceased to have meaning and has taken up an almost magic quality. It is used to trump ideas and quash discussion as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Language Log</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine turned me onto the blog Language Log. This compendium of things linguistic has been quite a distraction to me lately. The links below are to a couple of posts I particularly enjoyed.
Starbuck&#8217;s  Drink Names
I found this to be a nostalgic, if hackneyed, criticism of the naming conventions of Starbuck&#8217;s beverages. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baughn.org/opinions/?p=13</link>
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