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		<title>EASTERN Report – May 8, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 11:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is my report to the Board regarding EASTERN Center for Arts and Technology at our legislative meeting.  These comments are provided for your reference only.  They are based on information I gather publicly and do not represent any official position by EASTERN or the School District of Cheltenham Township.] The board approved the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky To Be In A Minority&#8230;And Planting Seeds</title>
		<link>http://jimbutt.com/2012/04/lucky-to-be-in-a-minority-and-planting-seeds/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/04/lucky-to-be-in-a-minority-and-planting-seeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to look far to see that school districts are struggling with potential program cuts to meet their annual budgets this year.  Here are some examples of articles for districts very close to ours: North Penn School District ($2.8M Gap) Springfield School District ($1.4M Gap) Upper Dublin School District ($1M Gap) Upper Merion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Affairs Committee Report to Board, April 10th, 2012</title>
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		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/04/business-affairs-committee-report-to-board-april-10th-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following are the speaking notes for my report to the Board regarding the Business Affairs committee meetingdelivered at our recent legislative meeting.  These notes are provided for your reference only and are based on information I gathered during the preceding committee meeting.  They do not represent an official record of the meeting or an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EASTERN Report, April 10th, 2012</title>
		<link>http://jimbutt.com/2012/04/eastern-report-april-10th-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/04/eastern-report-april-10th-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is my report to the Board regarding EASTERN Center for Arts and Technology at our legislative meeting.  These comments are provided for your reference only.  They are based on information I gather publicly and do not represent any official position by EASTERN or the School District of Cheltenham Township.] Many of us are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh&#8230;Sugar!</title>
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		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/04/oh-sugar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wellness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s some very interesting and possibly disturbing news coming out on the potential harmful effects of sugar.  Is sugar toxic?  Is it addictive? 60 Minutes did a report and here&#8217;s one more discussion with the same doctor at the University of California &#8211; San Francisco (UCSF). Aside from the obvious concerns, should schools take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EASTERN Report, March 13th, 2012</title>
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		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/04/eastern-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is my report to the Board regarding EASTERN Center for Arts and Technology at our legislative meeting.  These comments are provided for your reference only.  They are based on information I gather publicly and do not represent any official position by EASTERN or the School District of Cheltenham Township.] On March 4th, EASTERN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich Student, Poor Student&#8230;Our Next Horizon</title>
		<link>http://jimbutt.com/2012/03/rich-student-poor-student-our-next-horizon/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/03/rich-student-poor-student-our-next-horizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Achievement Gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equal Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;&#8230;it is obvious that if man is to redeem his spiritual and moral &#8220;lag&#8221;, he must go all out to bridge the social and economic gulf between the &#8220;haves&#8221; and the &#8220;have nots&#8221; of the world. Poverty is one of the most urgent items on the agenda of modern life.&#8217; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational Technology and Equity</title>
		<link>http://jimbutt.com/2012/02/educational-technology-and-equity/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/02/educational-technology-and-equity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flipped Classroom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are articles on education technology being published nearly every day, but here are a couple of good ones I thought I&#8217;d share. One is a blog summary of flipped classrooms, good if you need a primer on this concept.  The other is a recent NYT article on the use of technology to improve student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a College Town</title>
		<link>http://jimbutt.com/2012/02/building-a-college-town/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/02/building-a-college-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to college in a college town.  Blacksburg, Virginia, would almost not exist without Virginia Tech, and the school almost certainly would not have prospered without the local support of the community and leaders there.  Philadelphia would not be what it is were it not for the many schools in and nearby. We are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Skeptical About Apple iBooks</title>
		<link>http://jimbutt.com/2012/01/why-im-skeptical-about-apple-ibooks/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbutt.com/2012/01/why-im-skeptical-about-apple-ibooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open Standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent news that Apple has a new product offering electronic text books may sound interesting, given their recent string of &#8220;gotta have it&#8221; products, but be careful about believing that Apple is doing any favors for education here. The article below expresses concern that Apple has set its sights on the open standards that [...]]]></description>
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