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		<title>Valedictorian Speaks Out Against a Standardized Citizenry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This speech suggests our students are no more satisfied than we are with the regime of standardized testing. In the classroom, I once discussed this kind of success with my 8th graders. The reports had come in and we had done &#8220;outstanding&#8221; on the History test. Best in the district and as high as anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicolor.com/2010/08/valedictorian-speaks-out-against-a-standardized-citizenry/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Colbert: Human Rights vs. American Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t a stellar interview. Michael Posner appeared on the Colbert Report last week and, as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, he might have been better prepared for Colbert&#8217;s first question. Colbert&#8217;s question: What do these three things (democracy, human rights and labor) have to do with one another? Posner&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicolor.com/2010/08/stephen-colbert-human-rights-vs-american-rights/</link>
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		<title>Writing Assignment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Original: Cicero -  The Ideal Statesman Scipio: Why, he should have virtually no duty apart from this, for it embraces all the rest &#8212; namely that he should never cease inspecting and examining himself, challenging others to imitate him, and by the splendour of his mind and conduct offering himself as a mirror to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World-building and Storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Hugh C. Howey I just fired off an email to another writer, and it contained some thoughts on these two concepts that I thought I’d share a bit more publicly. Keep in mind: there’s a good chance that I have no idea what I’m talking about. _________________________________ …Another thing to think about is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking About Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Academy is talking about the &#8220;Federalist Transition&#8221; and we needed Kuhn to get there. This video aims to explain Kuhn&#8217;s understanding of revolutions but also reminds us to take seriously the &#8220;baggage&#8221; that accompanies the words we choose. And, if none of that is interesting, we can consider his choice of music. While we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/talking-about-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Wavelength</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the easiest ways to share your ideas on Politicolor. Every week we ask our contributors two questions and post their answers in an effort to help you find good ideas on the web. Because effective citizens are informed citizens engaged in sharing ideas&#8230; What didn’t you know last week? Gravity is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/weekly-wavelength-7/</link>
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		<title>Re-writing a bit of Hobbes as Cicero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Original: Hobbes, Thomas.  Leviathan.  Chapter 14, Section 31. The force of words being (as I have formerly noted) too weak to hold men to the performance of their covenants; there are in man’s nature but two imaginable helps to strengthen it. And those are either a fear of the consequence of breaking their word; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/re-writing-a-bit-of-hobbes-as-cicero/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s a Re-Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With two weeks of the National Academy behind the 2010 crew, there&#8217;s been a lot of talk about the Writing Assignment. Locke claimed the largest portion of this year&#8217;s re-writes with Cicero and Deuteronomy each coming in as a close second. News stories and six word re-presentations took on the challenge of communicating world-making ideas. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/thats-a-re-write/</link>
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		<title>A Theory of American Identity: Or the Radical American Exceptionalism: Or Why Baseball is Better than Soccer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An abstract submitted for you consideration. Your questions and assistance in refining the ideas presented here would be greatly appreciated. Over the last year I have been contemplating the notion of American identity, and what that means.  As I contemplated the bounds of this notion, I began formulating a rather extreme form of American exceptionalism.    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/a-theory-of-american-identity-or-the-radical-american-exceptionalism-or-why-baseball-is-better-than-soccer/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Wavelength</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the easiest ways to share your ideas on Politicolor. Every week we ask our contributors two questions and post their answers in an effort to help you find good ideas on the web. Because effective citizens are informed citizens&#8230; What didn’t you know last week? Arachne at her loom, after an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/weekly-wavelength-6/</link>
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