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		<title>Public Shaming of Teachers Will Not Improve Our Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veronica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s New York Times, Bill shares his thoughts on what a good, comprehensive system to support and evaluate teacher performance looks like. At the same time, he takes a firm stand against the practice of releasing individual teacher evaluation scores to the public, calling it “a capricious exercise in public shaming.”
Instead, he says helping teachers improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Thinking and Educational Reform in Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heath Stenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Friends,
Recently I stumbled upon a great article about the importance of incorporating critical thinking in educational reform in Nigeria.  The author starts by giving one of my favorite definitions of critical thinking, referencing the distinguished English philosopher Francis Bacon, who is most widely known as the creator of empiricism and the scientific method.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning based tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicu Cretu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Annals of Tourism Research, experts say that increasingly affluent and educated people around the world are ready to see travel in less conventional ways, and that lifelong learning and personal enrichment can compete favorably with sandy beaches or thrill rides.&#8221;
Of course, the development of this type of tourism will start with a combination of both: Learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the design of the school buildings influencing the happiness of our children?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veronica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear colleagues, a warm hello to you all! 
School is the place where children spend more than 60% of the time per day &#8230;
Has anyone thought about how does the building we studied in, or worked in, or where our children are studying right now, make any difference in the quality of education?!
Do you think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What might improve reading? What works in your context? What have you tried?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veronica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear colleagues! Warm greetings to you all!
I know that many of you are these days busy writing proposals, responding to the opened calls and delivering trainings, and in general, planning the Agenda for the 2012 to make it more and more interesting and captivating! Am I right?!
Well, this is to get back to you with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas to most active thinkers around the globe :)!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.criticalthinkingblog.org/definitions/merry-christmas-to-most-active-thinkers-around-the-globe#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veronica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Colleagues!
Warm Season Greetings to all those who are celebrating Christmas during this weekend!
&#8220;CMB&#8221; Training Center team wishes you a Prosperous and a Happy New Year 2012! 
- Let the New Year  provoke you to be generators of interesting and innovative projects;
- May you be full of positive energy and always in good spirits, thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you are not able to plan for tomorrow, you have no tomorrow: learn from Mr. Soros!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalthinkingblog.org/definitions/if-you-are-not-able-to-plan-for-tomorrow-you-have-no-tomorrow-learn-from-mr-soros</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>veronica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I wanted to share with you some interesting news, which are related to the change in leadership of the Open Society Foundations.  The OSF will have a new leader in 2012,Christopher Stone, and this will surely influence the way the Foundations will implement, develop and promote its values, principles and initiatives.
http://blog.soros.org/2011/12/a-new-leader-for-the-open-society-foundations-in-2012/
Do you agree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug-free way to double the speed of learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicu Cretu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By using electricity to energize neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, researchers are hopeful that they have found a harmless and drug-free way to double the speed of learning. (Source: Scientific American).
It is a very interesting research.
Is it possible to energize neuron circuits without electricity?
Do learning energizers (warm-ups) have a similar effect on brain?
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		<title>Do you think all school rules are ethical?</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalthinkingblog.org/definitions/do-you-think-all-school-regulations-are-ethical</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicu Cretu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as we would like to think that, put on the spot, we would do the right — and perhaps even heroic — thing, research has shown that that usually isn’t true. “People are routinely more willing to be critical of others’ ethics than of their own,” said Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision making &#8211; adult education</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalthinkingblog.org/definitions/decision-making-adult-education</link>
		<comments>http://www.criticalthinkingblog.org/definitions/decision-making-adult-education#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicu Cretu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the training topics that might be of interest in adult education is &#8220;decision making&#8221;.
One of the biggest problem a manager faces &#8211; lack of decision making skills in his employees. Of course there are 2 faces of this problem &#8211; the manager is eager to see his employees making decisions according to his [...]]]></description>
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