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		<title>It&#8217;s almost Spring, get your worksheets here</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2010/02/its-almost-spring-get-your-worksheets-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although it&#8217;s still Winter for most of us, there&#8217;s already a lot stuff on the site for the Spring theme:
Spring worksheets and downloads
Spring arts and crafts ideas
Spring lesson plans
Enjoy!
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		<title>Mexican swine flu prevention in schools</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2009/09/mexican-swine-flu-prevention-in-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeroen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the United States government unveiled their guidelines aimed at stopping the spread of &#8220;2009 H1N1 influenza&#8221; (a.k.a. the Mexican or Swine flu) in schools. Now that school is starting again in most countries in the Northern Hemisphere, there is a growing concern about what&#8217;s going to happen.
What does all this mean for people working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s stimulus bill: good news for education?</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2009/02/obamas-stimulus-bill-good-news-for-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeroen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big portion of president Obama&#8217;s stimulus bill for the US economy is reserved for education. So is this good news for everyone working in education? In the new plan, education gets about $150 billion in new spending, including $79 billion for state education aid and billions more for (much needed) school modernization.
I personally think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy new year</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2009/01/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year everybody! Our batteries have been recharged during the holidays, and we&#8217;re ready again for a fresh start of the year. We wish you all the best in the coming year!
 
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		<title>All-day kindergarten in Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2008/11/all-day-kindergarten-in-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeroen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February of this year, British Columbia&#8217;s education minister Shirley Bond announced that her ministry would investigate the cost and feasibility of offering all-day kindergarten.  At this moment in B.C., all-day kindergarten is only available for aboriginal, ESL and special-needs children. The plan would mean that full day kindergarten would be available to all five-year-olds by September 2009 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and McCain on education</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2008/10/obama-and-mccain-on-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeroen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming Tuesday is election day in the US, I don&#8217;t think anyone failed to notice that.  Both Obama and McCain are mainly focussing on the financial crisis and the war in Iraq. These are also what most voters claim to be the most important issues facing the US at the moment. With the campaigns hardening, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer games and childrens&#8217; math skills</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2008/10/computer-games-and-childrens-math-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeroen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can playing computer games improve childrens&#8217; math skills? Researchers in Scotland (link) found out that playing Nintendo DS&#8217;s Brain Trainer significantly improved the students&#8217; test scores.
Students aged nine and ten completed math tests before the nine week project, and then again afterwards.  All the childrens&#8217; scores were higher, but those using the trainer improved by 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laptops for kindergarten students</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2008/09/laptops-for-kindergarten-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeroen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new pilot has just started in Canada (link) to supply 4 year old kindergarten students with laptops, to be used in the classroom. During the pilot, the computers will be used &#8220;in both reading circle and outside the building to explore nature&#8221;.
Huh, what is that I thought? Exploring nature with a laptop?
Anyway, the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting kindergarten later</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2008/08/starting-kindergarten-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeroen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a growing trend towards starting kindergarten later, sometimes at the age of 6 or later. Most parents who hold their children back at home, do so because they think their child is not ready for kindergarten. In their opinion, their child will be stronger (socially and emotionally) and smarter if they wait longer.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.lessonsense.com/2008/08/teaching-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeroen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking for information of teaching jobs on the website of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and found some interesting statistics that I wanted to share with you:
In the USA, of all occupations in the elementary and secondary school category, there are 64,000 preschool teachers, 160,000 kindergarten teachers, 1.4 million elementary school teachers, 640,000 [...]]]></description>
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