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	<title>The Cluttered Mind Uncluttered &#187; Dr. Jim Taylor</title>
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		<title>Is This the Future of American Values?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2012/02/06/is-this-the-future-of-american-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In researching my next parenting book, I came across several recent studies that I found truly disturbing. As you will see shortly, the results don’t paint a pretty picture for the future of our children or our society as a whole. Even more damning is what it tells us about how parents are raising their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Terrified for My Daughters</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/09/28/im-terrified-for-my-daughters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/09/28/im-terrified-for-my-daughters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have two young daughters and, in some ways, I&#8217;m really excited that they are growing up in this generation. These are amazing times to be young and female with so many opportunities available to them. More women than men are graduating from college and earning graduate degrees. We see women at the highest level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Inspirational Talks Don&#8217;t Work</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/09/07/why-inspirational-talks-dont-work/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/09/07/why-inspirational-talks-dont-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever listened to an inspirational talk, for example, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch? Have you ever read an inspirational book such as Born to Run? Or watched an inspirational film like Hoosiers? How do you feel after? Well, inspired, right? What a great feeling! You&#8217;re fired up and ready to take on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Did America Start Hating Its Children?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/08/30/when-did-america-start-hating-its-children/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/08/30/when-did-america-start-hating-its-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me preface this post by apologizing to my loyal readers (that is, if such people exist outside of my family) for not publishing for a few weeks. I&#8217;ve been knee deep in writing a new book with a looming deadline, plus I&#8217;m a bit burned out on blogging weekly. You wouldn&#8217;t believe the pressure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the Children?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/08/10/where-are-the-children/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/08/10/where-are-the-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[See the photo to the right side of my post? A neighbor of mine, Larry Mansbach, emailed it to me because he thought it would make a good blog post. Well, he&#8217;s right. The photo was taken on a beautiful July Saturday afternoon at the fields and playground of an elementary school in Marin County [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arne and Bill&#8217;s Misguided Adventure: An Open Letter</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/08/01/arne-and-bills-misguided-adventure-an-open-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/08/01/arne-and-bills-misguided-adventure-an-open-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Arne and Bill, I really don&#8217;t understand you two, the U.S. Secretary of Education and the world&#8217;s second richest man and noted philanthropist. How can you possibly say that public education can be reformed without eliminating poverty? Let&#8217;s start with you, Arne. Here&#8217;s a quote from you: &#8220;When I was in Chicago, people used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Technology Stealing Our (Self) Identities?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/07/27/is-technology-stealing-our-self-identities/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/07/27/is-technology-stealing-our-self-identities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our self-identities, that is, how we define and see ourselves as unique individuals, play a vital role in who we are and the direction that our lives take. The self-identity encompasses the totality of knowledge and understanding that we gain about ourselves as we develop including our personalities, aptitudes and capabilities, intellectual and physical attributes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Biases Make Common Sense Neither</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/07/18/cognitive-biases-makes-common-sense-neither/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/07/18/cognitive-biases-makes-common-sense-neither/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I argued that common sense was vastly over-rated as a tool for making sound judgments and that we need to engage in &#8220;reasoned sense&#8221; that includes both extensive direct experience and critical thinking. Taking steps that include the informal use of the scientific method can help us make better decisions. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Sense is Neither Common nor Sense</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/07/11/common-sense-is-neither-common-nor-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/07/11/common-sense-is-neither-common-nor-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Common sense, defined as &#8220;sound judgment derived from experience rather than study,&#8221; is one of the most revered qualities in America. It evokes images of early and simpler times in which industrious men and women built our country into what it is today. People with common sense are seen as reasonable, down to earth, reliable, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing in Schools isn&#8217;t Working</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/07/07/testing-in-schools-isnt-working/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/07/07/testing-in-schools-isnt-working/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Testing has become the end-all, be-all of the public education reform movement. The idea seems quite sensible, that holding students (and teachers) to certain objective standards incentivizes both of these stakeholders to work harder and achieve their goals. It also seems reasonable to use the results of those tests as measures of the quality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Note to Parents: Let Kids Be Kids</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/06/28/kids-dont-need-toys/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/06/28/kids-dont-need-toys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had three experiences recently that were real eye openers for me when it comes to raising children. I have to admit that I don&#8217;t have too many epiphanies these days, considering that I&#8217;ve worked with children for years, I&#8217;m the author of three parenting books (working on my fourth), and I have two kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Decision Making 2.0</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/06/20/bad-decision-making-2-0/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/06/20/bad-decision-making-2-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been some egregiously bad decision making in the news lately, highlighted by the revelations around now-former Congressman Anthony Weiner&#8217;s ongoing sexually explicit Twitter conversations and photo sharing with six women. And just to show you that this post isn&#8217;t a partisan attack, let&#8217;s not forget the similarly bad decision making of also-recently-resigned Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of &#8220;Bromance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/06/13/the-joys-of-bromance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/06/13/the-joys-of-bromance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession: I&#8217;m having a &#8220;bromance.&#8221; You may know the term from the movie I Love You, Man; it describes a close, though non-sexual relationship between two men. Yes, my wife knows about and she supports it. My bromance was certainly unexpected. In fact, he (I&#8217;ll call him Drew) is probably my first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punish the Parents for Failing Students?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/06/06/punish-the-parents-for-failing-students/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/06/06/punish-the-parents-for-failing-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I wrote a blog post in which I argued, contrary to the current political wisdom (is that an oxymoron?) and education policy that the problem with public education in America is not lousy teachers or failing schools. Rather, failing students are the problem, specifically, students we enter the public school system wholly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Low-resolution Life Worth Living?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/31/virtual-vs-real-life-you-choose/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/31/virtual-vs-real-life-you-choose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just started writing a new book that focuses on the impact of new technology on children. As I was writing one particular chapter, it struck me that the ideas within had relevance to all of us as we navigate the growing digital landscape. I see two fundamental differences between connected life, that is, life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Fire the Pundits!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/23/please-fire-the-pundits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/23/please-fire-the-pundits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I should be a pundit. According to a new study, I possess the two qualities most predictive of accurate prognostication. More on that shortly. You should be a pundit; you have as much chance of being correct in your predictions as most pundits. More on that a bit later too. Remember the days when there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Narcissism is Alive and Well in America</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/16/narcissism-is-alive-and-well-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/16/narcissism-is-alive-and-well-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know the story of Narcissus? The very handsome fellow in Greek mythology who, because of his indifference and disdain toward others, was punished by the gods by falling in love with his own image. He was so enrapted by his beauty that he was unable to pull himself away from his own reflection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ad Out!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/09/ad-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/09/ad-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, I’m not talking about the upcoming French Open Tennis Championships being held in Paris later this month. I’m talking about the invasion of Web site real estate by all manner of ads. Have you looked at your most frequently visited Web sites lately, I mean really looked at them. Go back to a few and take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Words for Better Parenting</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/02/three-words-for-better-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/05/02/three-words-for-better-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make: I wrote my first two parenting books before I had children. Is this a great country or what, where you can become an &#8220;expert&#8221; at something you have never done before (of course, I had worked with families for many years in my practice)? I now have two children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caught in the &#8216;Net</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/25/caught-in-the-net/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/25/caught-in-the-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve followed my tech-related blog posts over the last few years (if you haven&#8217;t, you can catch up here), you know that I have real concerns and what I consider to be some healthy skepticism about the impact of new technology and social media on people, particularly their biggest consumers, children and young people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Self-help Industry a Fraud?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/18/is-the-self-help-industry-a-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/18/is-the-self-help-industry-a-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Change. Whether you call it self-help, personal transformation, growth, or just plain change, it is a goal to which virtually everyone aspires. Gaining self-esteem, losing weight, improving relationships, achieving success, getting rich, or finding happiness are just a few of the ways in which people the world over want to alter their lives. Our ability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Bad Kids Can&#8217;t Vote</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/11/too-bad-kids-cant-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/11/too-bad-kids-cant-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If children could vote, then I&#8217;m sure politicians in both our federal and state governments would demonstrate some actual concern for them rather than demonstrating a wanton disregard for these little citizens who are the future of America. This profound indifference to the needs of our children is displayed starkly in how the federal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Tasking</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/06/single-tasking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having established in a previous post that what most people call multitasking is not the most productive and efficient way to work, the next question I want to address is how to effectively engage in single tasking. The answer is definitely not rocket science; it just requires prioritizing, delegation, focus, and, most importantly, commitment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the NFL Bad For Women&#8217;s Health?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/04/is-the-nfl-bad-for-womens-health/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/04/04/is-the-nfl-bad-for-womens-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just prior to the Super Bowl in 1993, a news conference was held by a coalition of women&#8217;s groups informing reporters of substantial evidence that domestic violence rose significantly (as much as 40 percent) on Super Bowl Sunday. The subsequent flurry of media attention resulted in this news becoming a &#8220;fact&#8221; (you&#8217;ll see why I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myth of Multitasking</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/03/30/myth-of-multitasking/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/03/30/myth-of-multitasking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many wired people, you probably take great pride in being a multitasker. You talk on your mobile phone, send e-mail, check the stock market online, and perhaps even read a letter and jot down notes for an upcoming meeting all at the same time (or so you think). Why do you multitask? Well, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does March Madness Matter?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/03/28/does-march-madness-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Magazine had a cover story a few weeks ago that posed the question: Does college basketball matter? In answer to this rather existential question, I thought, well, it depends to which college basketball they are referring. Are they talking about the game that&#8217;s &#8220;all about the Benjamins,&#8221; including exorbitant coaches&#8217; salaries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Public Education, It&#8217;s the Family, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/03/21/in-public-education-its-the-family-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/03/21/in-public-education-its-the-family-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love it when I&#8217;m right (a rarity some would argue), or rather, when there is compelling evidence supporting a controversial position I&#8217;ve taken. This post is one of those moments. I have argued in previous posts that the billions of dollars being spent on public education reform at the school level, if not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing Your Children is Not Good Parenting</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/03/14/killing-your-children-is-not-good-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/03/14/killing-your-children-is-not-good-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reluctant to write this post ever since I read an absolutely shocking story recently. In fact, my wife told me that I shouldn&#8217;t write it at all as the post could be seen, at best, as insensitive and, at worst, as distasteful beyond the pale. But I have been eerily attracted to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Smartphone Rules to Live By</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/03/07/5-smartphone-rules-to-live-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The smartphone has become a ubiquitous status symbol of and tool for businesspeople doing business. In offices, on the streets, and in airports, what self-respecting businessperson doesn’t have their smartphone, whether an Android, Blackberry, Windows, Palm, or iPhone, at the ready to make the deal, provide support, change the plan, or just stay up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting: How NOT to Raise Spoiled Brats</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/28/parenting-how-not-to-raise-spoiled-brats/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/28/parenting-how-not-to-raise-spoiled-brats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I described what I have seen as a rise in spoiled and fiscally irresponsible brats among both wealthy and less affluent families. Several commenters suggested that it&#8217;s impossible to not raise spoiled brats in a moneyed family, in particular, because it is such an ever-present and influential force in these children&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.E.I. is the New T.M.I.</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/25/n-e-i-is-the-new-t-m-i/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/25/n-e-i-is-the-new-t-m-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of America&#8217;s most cherished rights is citizens&#8217; right to privacy, as former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun noted, &#8220;the right to be let alone.&#8221; Passions are stirred by debates about the right to privacy and it has become a political hot potato in recent years due in part to the domestic wiretapping controversy, identity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Raise Spoiled Brats</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/21/how-to-raise-spoiled-brats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my consulting practice, I work with many families, both high-net-worth and those less affluent. I am constantly amazed at how nonchalant (or even downright neglectful) the parents are in their children&#8217;s fiscal education in both of these income groups. Despite the fact that many of the well-to-do parents grew up in less-affluent families themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Social Media Can Ruin Lives</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/18/how-social-media-can-ruin-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all know the power of the Internet for good. It offers a wealth of information, connects people who are miles and cultures apart, and allows news to be disseminated instantly. But I recently learned of a young man whose reputation, and perhaps his life, has been devastated because of information, later proved to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Success More Than ABCs</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/14/academic-success-more-than-abcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Making sure children have the academic knowledge and skills necessary for educational and career success is a hot topic these days all along the education and child development food chains. At the bottom, reform efforts have included overhauling school curricula, increasing teacher quality, reducing class size, and providing laptop computers to all students. At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-time Web, Unreal-time Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/11/real-time-web-unreal-time-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pete Cashmore, the founder and CEO of Mashable, the well-read social-media blog, suggested in a recent CNN column that real-time Web was one of the top 10 Web trends of 2010. Real-time Web means being able to send and receive information almost instantaneously. Mr. Cashmore (great business name, by the way) argues that real-time Web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Words We Need to Hear More in Politics</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/07/three-words-we-need-to-hear-more-in-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/07/three-words-we-need-to-hear-more-in-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You didn&#8217;t hear those three words from the liberals after their off-the-mark accusations of right-wing instigation of the Tucson tragedy. You didn&#8217;t hear them from Michele Bachmann after her history-revising Tea Party response to President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union speech. These three words are almost entirely absent from the political landscape. Yet, for America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law of Unintended Consequences</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/04/law-of-unintended-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/02/04/law-of-unintended-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been called a skeptic, an alarmist, and a doomsayer because the focus of most of my technology blogging is on the risks of and what&#8217;s wrong with technology. I realize that I may sound like a Luddite despite the fact that I&#8217;m actually pretty tech savvy, an early adapter, and readily admit that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality TV is NOT Reality</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/31/reality-tv-is-not-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What attracts millions of Americans each week to this cultural phenomenon known as &#8220;reality TV?&#8221; Where did the purveyors of shows such as Survivor, Jersey Shore, and Wife Swap, get the idea (I know, from Europe!), and why do so many of us buy into the idea that reality TV resembles reality in any way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off Line, On Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/28/off-line-on-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post refers to an epiphany I had back in December. The realization was about my relationship with technology, namely, I was exhibiting some of the symptoms of technology addiction. And I wasn&#8217;t the only one in my family with email and Internet issues. My wife, who doesn&#8217;t own a smartphone, would, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger Mom is a Scaredy Cat</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/26/tiger-mom-is-a-scaredy-cat/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/26/tiger-mom-is-a-scaredy-cat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking: &#8220;Hasn&#8217;t this horse been beaten enough. Three blog posts on the same subject. This guy is seriously obsessed.&#8221; Obsessed, I&#8217;m not sure, but definitely fascinated. And I guess that it has taken me three tries (no promises that this will be my last post on the subject) to distill Amy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Futility of Civility</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/24/the-futility-of-civility/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/24/the-futility-of-civility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the Tucson tragedy, there has been much renewed discussion about the tenor of political discourse in America and the need for a return to a more civil tone among those with divergent views. But even such a horrible national event couldn&#8217;t tear many in the politicosphere from their ideological high horses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Education Gone (Absurdly) Wrong</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/20/public-education-gone-absurdly-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/20/public-education-gone-absurdly-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The challenges of changing a public education system that is so entrenched came to absurd light from a parent who shared with me her frustrations in trying to hold a principal accountable for what the parent believed was incompetence and negligence related to student safety at her children&#8217;s school in the Bay Area. This parent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Love about the Tiger Mom</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/19/what-i-love-about-the-tiger-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/19/what-i-love-about-the-tiger-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at the title of my recent blog post about Amy Chua, What Chinese-American Mothers to Wrong (and Right), and the title of this piece, you may be thinking that I have Multiple Personality Disorder, excoriating her one day and expressing my affection for her the next. I have since thought more about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Chinese-American Mothers do Wrong (and Right)</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/17/what-chinese-american-mothers-do-wrong-and-right/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/17/what-chinese-american-mothers-do-wrong-and-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you read the article on wsj.com by Amy Chua, a Chinese-American mother (and law professor at Yale)? If not, you probably don&#8217;t have children. It is a must-read! I was both mesmerized and appalled by the article; like driving past a horrific car accident and wondering whether anyone survived. I realize that her article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failing Kindergarteners?: You Cannot be Serious!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/10/failing-kindergarteners-you-cannot-be-serious/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/10/failing-kindergarteners-you-cannot-be-serious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some recent news out of the bizarro world of public education caused me to have a John McEnroe moment (for those of you who didn&#8217;t follow his illustrious and animated tennis career, the statement, &#8220;You cannot be serious!,&#8221; is one of his most famous tirades against the injustice of an allegedly bad line call). And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Phenom You&#8217;ve Never Heard of</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/03/the-greatest-phenom-youve-never-heard-of/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2011/01/03/the-greatest-phenom-youve-never-heard-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard the name Mikaela Shiffrin? Not likely, unless you&#8217;re a big fan of alpine ski racing, a sport that only grabs America&#8217;s attention every four years during the Winter Olympics. Over the last decade, alpine ski racers have gotten their fair share of media coverage, thanks to the gold medals won by Bode [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generation Tech: Where are the Parents?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/27/generation-tech-where-are-the-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/27/generation-tech-where-are-the-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The march of technology is inevitable and inexorable. We can’t stop it or even slow it down and we definitely can’t reverse it (nor should we want to). As I have noted in a previous post, one of my concerns is that this progress is so rapid that we don’t have time to determine or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Popular Culture: What to Get My Kids for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/22/popular-culture-what-to-get-my-kids-for-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/22/popular-culture-what-to-get-my-kids-for-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having another one of those &#8220;end  of civilization as we know it&#8221; moments lately. It started when my wife and I began Christmas shopping for our daughters and were overwhelmed by the seemingly unending universe of toys from which to choose (don&#8217;t even get me started on how the Christmas season is now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Public Education Chicken Littles Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/20/are-public-education-chicken-littles-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/20/are-public-education-chicken-littles-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have been hearing a constant drumbeat from politicians, policy wonks, and pundits that America&#8217;s public education system is losing the educational &#8220;arms race&#8221; against other countries around the world. These advocates for reform use the widely reported results of testing of students from dozens of countries showing that U.S. students have gone from world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Focused, Be Happy</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/13/be-focused-be-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/13/be-focused-be-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent research that has been making the media rounds lately has reported that when people are focused on a task they indicate that they are happier than when their mind wanders. This research is obviously not breaking news for the tens of millions of Buddhists and uncounted others who have experienced the phenomenon of being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disgust: Political Emotion of the Times</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/06/disgust-political-emotion-of-the-times/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/12/06/disgust-political-emotion-of-the-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been a whole lot of emotions flying around this fall leading up to and in the aftermath of the mid-term elections in November. Before November 2nd, there was mostly frustration and anger on the Right and fear and resignation on the Left. After the &#8220;shellacking&#8221; at the polls, another set of emotions kicked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marky Z and Facebook: Growing Up and Aiming High</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/29/marky-z-and-facebook-growing-up-and-aiming-high/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/29/marky-z-and-facebook-growing-up-and-aiming-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook founder and CEO, baby-faced billionaire, and unintended star of a hit (don’t miss the double meaning) film Mark Zuckerberg announced last week that it will soon be offering a new messaging system, Facebook Messages, that integrates email (so 20th century), IM, SMS, Facebook, and other social media into one seamless stream of cyber-communication. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Public Education Reform Starts at Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/22/real-public-education-reform-starts-at-home/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/22/real-public-education-reform-starts-at-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To his credit, Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary Waiting for Superman has generated real buzz far outside the usual sphere of policy wonks, professional educators, and concerned parents. Unfortunately, to his fault, his film is also a biased, revisionist, and propagandist take on what really ails public education in America, rife with self-serving anecdotes, cherry picking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less Input and More “Innerput”</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/19/less-input-and-more-%e2%80%9cinnerput%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/19/less-input-and-more-%e2%80%9cinnerput%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Web, the Internet, and all of the new media that has sprung from them , have been a boon to the information age, making information available at our fingertips instantaneously. The sheer volume of information now accessible on line is staggering. As of a few weeks ago, there were more than 21 billion pages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alone in a Crowd, High-tech Style</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/15/alone-in-a-crowd-high-tech-style-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/15/alone-in-a-crowd-high-tech-style-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The next time you&#8217;re walking down the street, at the gym, in an elevator, out for a run, or even at your local coffee shop, look at the people around you and tell me what you see. What I notice is the ubiquity of people with headphones in their ears. Though not quite in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A School District Out of Control?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/12/a-school-district-out-of-control/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/12/a-school-district-out-of-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I described what I believe is a travesty and tragedy of national proportion as exemplified by practices in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that demonstrate a wanton disregard for the education of its students and disrespect for its teachers. In that post, I introduced you to Leonard Isenberg, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers Should Be “Too Big to Fail”</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/08/consumers-should-be-%e2%80%9ctoo-big-to-fail%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/08/consumers-should-be-%e2%80%9ctoo-big-to-fail%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As distasteful as it was to see the financial, insurance, and automotive industries bailed out for their greedy and reckless behavior, it seems clear that President Bush’s and President Obama&#8217;s decisions to do so were correct. Allowing the “too big to fail” companies to fail, however much they deserved to die a slow and painful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Education Reform is Doubly Off the Mark</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/05/public-education-reform-is-doubly-off-the-mark/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/05/public-education-reform-is-doubly-off-the-mark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even before any action is taken to reform our public education system, the current efforts being championed by President Obama and administered by Education Secretary Arne Duncan are missing the mark at two fundamental levels and, in doing so, ill serve the needs of all students. First, let&#8217;s start with what public education reform really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What it Means to be a Badass</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/01/what-it-means-to-be-a-badass/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/11/01/what-it-means-to-be-a-badass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: I apologize in advance for using the word badass. I realize that it might offend some people. But, right or wrong, it is now a mostly accepted part of our vocabulary, even listed in traditional on-line dictionaries. If you find the word objectionable, please focus on the message rather than on the, for some, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relationships 2.0: How Technology is Redefining How We Connect</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/29/relationships-2-0-how-technology-is-redefining-how-we-connect/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/29/relationships-2-0-how-technology-is-redefining-how-we-connect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the areas of life that computer and communications technology seems to be impacting the most is its influence on relationships. Mobile phones, texting, facebook, and Twitter are just a few of the ways in which relationships are being redefined, established, and maintained by technology. We have entered a new era of Relationships 2.0. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S.T.A.M.P.E.R. not S.T.E.M. For Public Education Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/25/s-t-a-m-p-e-r-not-s-t-e-m-for-public-education-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/25/s-t-a-m-p-e-r-not-s-t-e-m-for-public-education-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[S.T.E.M. is one of the acronyms du jour in the current public education debate. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, which represent, some argue, the four areas that act as the foundation for America maintaining its preeminent position as world leaders in innovation and technological advancement. Some education reformers  believe that these four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Unconscionable Public-Education Practices</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/22/five-unconscionable-public-education-practices/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/22/five-unconscionable-public-education-practices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is a scenario that I just don&#8217;t want to believe because it affirms my (our!) worst impressions of public education for the poor in America. This post has everything you would expect from a massively flawed and inertial monolith: a system failed, a bureaucracy corrupted, teachers subverted, and young people disserved. It has all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Television &#8212; and America &#8212; on the Couch</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/18/television-and-america-on-the-couch/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/18/television-and-america-on-the-couch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About one hundred years ago, Sigmund Freud laid the foundation for the development of the projective test, like the Rorschach, as a means of indirectly assessing people’s psyches and identifying their deepest needs and emotions. Though the value of projective tests has been questioned, I would suggest that such formal tests aren’t necessary anymore. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Civility Dead?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/15/is-civility-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/15/is-civility-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is civility dead? It sure seems so. In recent years, the quality of discourse in America has declined dramatically. Rarely in discussions of any import these days, whether politics, religion, the economy, education, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the list goes on, is there a respectful exchange of ideas. Instead, such interactions are either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhonda Byrne Proves There&#8217;s a Sucker Born Every Minute</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/12/rhonda-byrne-proves-theres-a-sucker-born-every-minute/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/12/rhonda-byrne-proves-theres-a-sucker-born-every-minute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There would be more than 19,000,000 and counting of those minutes given that is the number of copies of The Secret that have been sold to date. And that doesn&#8217;t include collateral minutes born of purchases of her CDs, DVDs, wall calendars, key rings, and assorted other inspirational tchotchkes available for sale. Plus, her new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travesty of Education Budget Cuts</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/08/the-travesty-of-education-budget-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/08/the-travesty-of-education-budget-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been hearing so much about budget cuts to public education in the news lately. In recent months, there have been demonstrations all over the Bay Area protesting the massive budget cuts to public colleges, and secondary and elementary schools throughout California. And these protests weren’t just on the college campuses of Berkeley, Santa Cruz, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychic Toll of the Great Recession</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/03/has-the-great-recession-damaged-the-american-psyche/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/03/has-the-great-recession-damaged-the-american-psyche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of course I&#8217;m concerned about the financial well-being of our citizens. Every layoff and foreclosure hurts not only individuals and their families, but also the over-all health of our economy. But, given my Ph.D. in Psychology, I&#8217;m also deeply concerned about the impact of the Great Recession on the individual psyches of Americans who strain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Communities: The Kindness of Strangers</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/01/online-communities-the-kindness-of-strangers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/10/01/online-communities-the-kindness-of-strangers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who follow my Psychology of Technology blog posts (here), you know that I&#8217;m a bit cynical about how technology is impacting us, particularly when it comes to how we define relationships. My worries aren&#8217;t so great that I&#8217;m looking to wipe out our communications grid with an electromagnetic pulse or anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test to the Teach</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/27/test-to-the-teach/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/27/test-to-the-teach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who follow my education-related posts (here is a primer), you know I&#8217;m no fan of testing in public schools as it is currently conceived and used. In my view, the cart is firmly before the horse, where the horse of quality education is being pulled by the cart of testing rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Charter School Fails to Make the Grade</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/24/stanford-charter-school-fails-to-make-the-grade/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/24/stanford-charter-school-fails-to-make-the-grade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How much more evidence do we need before we conclude that charter schools aren&#8217;t the panacea for America&#8217;s public education woes that so many believe them to be? If you missed the story a while back, a charter school created and administered by Stanford University&#8217;s renowned Department of Education had its charter revoked by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Care about LeBron James or Lindsay Lohan or…</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/20/i-dont-care-about-lebron-james-or-lindsay-lohan-or%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/20/i-dont-care-about-lebron-james-or-lindsay-lohan-or%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Boy am I glad that the media feeding frenzy over the ill-advised LeBron James/ESPN cluster@#&#38;%, &#8220;The Decision,&#8221; is long past. It just demonstrated what we should have assumed all along, namely, that behind that façade of loyal and humble Cleveland homeboy was the usual narcissistic superstar athlete that we have come to expect these days. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Geek is Chic</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/17/white-house-geek-is-chic/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/17/white-house-geek-is-chic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Machismo is out and nerdiness is in in the hallowed halls of the White House. I realized this when recently resigned Peter Orzag, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the so-called &#8220;money geek,&#8221; got some big press for his engagement to Bianca Golodryga, a universally declared &#8220;hottie&#8221; financial reporter for ABC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-track High-school System a Must for Education Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/13/two-track-education-a-must-for-public-education-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/13/two-track-education-a-must-for-public-education-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a whole lot of talk and even more money being bandied about these days in the name of public education reform (read public education for the poor). And some of the words that cause educators&#8217; hearts to go &#8220;THUMP, THUMP&#8221; (some with excitement, others with trepidation) are accountability, testing, value-added, and charter schools. Unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economists are Irrational!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/09/economists-are-irrational/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/09/economists-are-irrational/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read an article not long ago by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in which he described the renewed battle between so-called freshwater economists (so named because they are largely based at the University of Chicago and other Midwestern universities) and saltwater economists (based primarily at Princeton, MIT, Berkeley and other coastal universities). The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Did the Senate Turn into Pre-school?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/05/when-did-the-senate-turn-into-pre-school/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/05/when-did-the-senate-turn-into-pre-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve become quite an authority on pre-schoolers these days. My eldest daughter just finished pre-school and my youngest daughter is in her second year. Plus, I&#8217;m writing my third parenting book tentatively titled, Parenting on Message: The 9 Essential Messages to Give Your Child a Great Start to Life (The Experiment Publishing, Spring, 2011), which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Bad Parenting Be a Crime?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/03/should-bad-parenting-be-a-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/09/03/should-bad-parenting-be-a-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, it wasn't my idea; a commenter raised the question in response to a recent blog post in which I argued that bad parenting is the number-one cause of failing students and failing schools and, consequently, the best point of intervention for public education reform. But it is an intriguing idea. Now, you may be thinking that I'm suggesting the Parenting Police and another step toward a Nanny State. But give me a little latitude and let's see where this discussion takes us. ]]></description>
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		<title>Will a New House Bring You Happiness?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/29/will-a-new-house-bring-you-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/29/will-a-new-house-bring-you-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was having a conversation with a friend recently about happiness. Our conversation began with her asking me if I thought that buying a new house would make her happier (she asked this question only half facetiously). My initial reaction was that a house can&#8217;t bring happiness. In fact, a robust finding of the growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outrage 2.0</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/27/outrage-2-0/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/27/outrage-2-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do the following have in common?: “Too big to fail” government bailouts. Executive pay on Wall Street. The absence of universal health care in America. The influence of lobbyists on government. Corrupt politicians. All of the above should immediately generate profound outrage among all of our citizens, regardless of their geography, race, ethnicity, politics, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has America Lost its Self-respect?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/23/has-america-lost-its-self-respect/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/23/has-america-lost-its-self-respect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love the United States of America. At the same time, for all of our greatness, America is not the country it once was. If America were a man today, he would have lost respect for himself. America was once built on compassion, yet our country now demonstrates a shameful disregard for its most vulnerable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I a Technology Doomsayer?  Or Ten Things I Love About Technology</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/20/am-i-a-technology-doomsayer-or-ten-things-i-love-about-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/20/am-i-a-technology-doomsayer-or-ten-things-i-love-about-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reviewing my technology-related blog posts of late and I&#8217;ve noticed a particular trend that I find troubling: I seem to be a technology doomsayer. The overriding theme I&#8217;ve identified in my own writing about technology is one of skepticism and caution. My posts tend to focus on the problems that technology creates, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Reasons I Really Dislike Public Education Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/16/seven-reasons-i-really-dislike-race-to-the-top/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/16/seven-reasons-i-really-dislike-race-to-the-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who follows my posts on public education reform (here&#8217;s a good place for a primer) knows that I am not a fan of the Obama administration&#8217;s public education initiatives, including Race to the Top. The programs are, in my view, mislabeled, misdirected, and misguided. I would have used the word hate to describe my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natalie Merchant a Disappointment in Concert</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/12/dont-see-natalie-merchant-in-concert/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/12/dont-see-natalie-merchant-in-concert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no music aficionado (I would be embarrassed for you to see my iPod playlist), but I was excited when my wife got us tickets ($72 each!) to see Natalie Merchant at the Fox Theater in Oakland last night. I&#8217;ve listened to and enjoyed her music for years and looked forward to hearing it live. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing the Real Culture War</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/09/losing-the-real-culture-war/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/09/losing-the-real-culture-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent decades, America has become embroiled in a so-called “culture war” between the right and left, red states and blue states. This culture war, supposedly fought over the moral values that are intended to guide our country, has created a schism so wide and seemingly so insurmountable that, as we stand now, a future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-corporate vs. Anti-government Anger: Who to Trust?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/06/anti-corporate-vs-anti-government-anger-who-to-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/06/anti-corporate-vs-anti-government-anger-who-to-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is not a partisan polemic intended to attack those who hold different views than I. Rather, it is an honest attempt to understand the reasoning behind those who have divergent beliefs about the anti-corporate and anti-government anger that is currently being expressed so viscerally by so many people in America. I hope that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Hoyle&#8217;s Play, The Real Americans, is a Must-see</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/05/dan-hoyles-play-the-real-americans-is-a-must-see/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/05/dan-hoyles-play-the-real-americans-is-a-must-see/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I saw Dan Hoyle&#8217;s one-man play, The Real Americans, at the Marsh theater in the Mission district of San Francisco. It was nothing short of brilliant: unsettling, poignant, and hilarious. The Real Americans is based on his three-month journey through America&#8217;s heartland, with stops in Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, and Chicago, among others. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindergarten Matters!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/02/kindergarten-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/08/02/kindergarten-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you read the article in the New York Times last week discussing research that demonstrated the clear importance of kindergarten to later success? It was a real eye opener for many people who are involved in public education and real confirmation for those of us who have advocated for true reform in an American public-education system that has been in steady decline for years.]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of the Blog &#8220;Commentariat&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/30/in-praise-of-the-blog-commentariat/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/30/in-praise-of-the-blog-commentariat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I wrote a post titled The Blogosphere Jungle in which I described the truly uncivil nature of the blogosphere in which respect for opposing views and dispassionate discourse were out and ad hominem attacks and demonization were in. Yet, as I have followed and responded to many comments to my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disconnectivity Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/26/disconnectivity-anxiety/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/26/disconnectivity-anxiety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you freak out when you lose your mobile phone signal? Do you get stressed when your Internet goes down? Are you mortified if you have to use dial-up to access your email? If so, you may be suffering from “Disconnectivity Anxiety.”  Though not an official psychiatric disorder, I see it as a growing problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Responsible for Mean People?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/22/whos-responsible-for-mean-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/22/whos-responsible-for-mean-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about hitting a man when he&#8217;s down, literally and figuratively. Have you read about the surge in attacks on the homeless, many by so-called thrill offenders? There&#8217;s even a genre of on line entertainment called &#8220;bum fight&#8221; videos that get posted on the Internet. In other words, young men beat up and set fire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheaters Gone Wild!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/19/cheaters-gone-wild/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/19/cheaters-gone-wild/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Am I wrong or is there a whole lot of cheating going on these days? And is cheating more widespread than ever before? I don&#8217;t know, but it sure seems like it, and from sources both expected and unexpected. Of course, there are the usual suspects, including students, financiers, pharmaceutical companies, politicians, and professional athletes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failing Students, Not Failing Schools</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/16/failing-students-not-failing-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/16/failing-students-not-failing-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been hearing a lot about public education reform lately; No Child Left Behind is up for reauthorization and the Race to the Top is one of President Obama&#8217;s top policy initiatives. But all this talk about reform is not really about public education. &#8220;Public education&#8221; is a code phrase for education for the poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Words I Wish Big Finance Would Learn</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/15/three-words-i-wish-big-finance-would-learn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/15/three-words-i-wish-big-finance-would-learn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been shocking and bewildering to watch the behavior of some of the top banking CEOs (not to mention BP&#8217;s CEO, but that story is beyond the scope of this post) in recent months, punctuated by the appearance of four of these executives before Congress a few months back. Some questions immediately pop into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone: High-tech Child Abuse?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/12/iphone-the-new-child-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/12/iphone-the-new-child-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not referring to parents whacking their children with their iPhones. I&#8217;m talking about the new ways in which parents can now keep their kids distracted, entertained, and otherwise occupied, in other words, out of their parents&#8217; hair. Parental expediency has truly reached new heights thanks to the iPhone and its army of clever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have All Our Heroes Gone?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/08/where-have-all-our-heroes-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/08/where-have-all-our-heroes-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, my world was filled with heroes. There were John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Carl Yastrzemski. These icons represented everything good about America: strong, principled, humble, and decent. They led exemplary lives, worked hard, and cared about the world in which they lived. As an impressionable boy, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side of Youth Sports Superstardom</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/05/the-dark-side-of-youth-sports-superstardom/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/05/the-dark-side-of-youth-sports-superstardom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Wimbledon Tennis Championships just concluded, it is a joy to bask in the reflected glory of such superstars as Rafi Nadal, Andy Murray, Serena Williams, and Vera Zvonareva. Their stories are truly inspiring; the early commitment, the years of hard work, the difficult sacrifices to achieve their Herculean dreams. The media place these [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/02/184/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/07/02/184/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When did teachers become the bêtes noir of public education? Why are they getting all the blame for America’s public education failings? Everywhere you look, people are piling on teachers as if they are at the root of all that is bad in our public education system. Even President Obama has gotten in the act, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics: Can We Find Common Ground?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/30/politics-can-we-find-common-ground/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/30/politics-can-we-find-common-ground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All the talk these days in politics is about how polarized America has become. There is certainly plenty of partisanship reverberating through the hallowed halls of Congress, what with the constant threat of filibusters and the passage of the health-care law by &#8220;budget reconciliation.&#8221; Not a lot of bipartisan pizza parties happening on the Hill, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Technology Connection Mean Life Disconnection?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/28/does-technology-connection-mean-life-disconnection/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/28/does-technology-connection-mean-life-disconnection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Has computer and communication technology allowed us to connect more deeply with life? Or, as we become more connected with this technology, are we becoming more disconnected from life? As someone who has made his life&#8217;s work the study of human behavior and who is fascinated by the nexus of humanity and computer and communication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blogosphere Jungle</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/25/the-blogosphere-jungle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/25/the-blogosphere-jungle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can tell you this: It&#8217;s a jungle out there. I don&#8217;t mean the real world in which most of us inhabit; that world is pretty tame. I&#8217;m talking about the blogosphere. I&#8217;ve been blogging for several years now and, at first, it was a pretty unexciting experience. I would post a…post (I still haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise Green Children</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/23/raise-green-children/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/23/raise-green-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of where you stand on the issue of climate change, I hope there is no argument that, environmentally speaking, we simply can&#8217;t sustain our current path for much longer. Air pollution caused by the growing number of automobiles on the road and coal-burning power plants worldwide. Our oceans and seas being fished out. Massive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Stop Calling it a Spill!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/21/please-stop-calling-it-a-spill/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/21/please-stop-calling-it-a-spill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My almost-five-year-old daughter knocked over her glass of milk the other night at dinner. The result? A small puddle of milk on and under our kitchen table otherwise known as spilled milk. My wife&#8217;s and my reactions? &#8220;Oops. You spilled your milk. Oh well, accidents happen. Let&#8217;s clean it up.&#8221; With nothing more than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obstacles to Public Education Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/18/obstacles-to-public-education-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/18/obstacles-to-public-education-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My first two posts in my Race to the Top? Series (here and here) focused on the effects of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top on children at the top and the bottom of the education food chain. This post will explore several of the obstacles that prevent real education reform from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude: &#8220;Get What You Get and Don&#8217;t Get Upset&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/16/gratitude-get-what-you-get-and-dont-get-upset/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/16/gratitude-get-what-you-get-and-dont-get-upset/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard this post&#8217;s title phrase the other day at snack time from one of my daughters. Our youngest, who is almost three years old, wasn&#8217;t happy with the size of her portion of snacks and let my wife and I know of her displeasure in no uncertain terms: &#8220;More, more, more!&#8221; at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Why the Tea Party Will Fade Away</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/14/fear-and-why-the-tea-party-will-fade-away/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/14/fear-and-why-the-tea-party-will-fade-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tea Party is on a hot streak lately what with the Republican primary victories of Rand Paul in Kentucky and Sharron Angle in Nevada. And the talk among many is that the Tea Party will have a transformative impact on the upcoming midterm elections and be an enduring force in American politics for years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politicians&#8217; Ethical Race to the Bottom</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/11/politicians-ethical-race-to-the-bottom/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/11/politicians-ethical-race-to-the-bottom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like every time you turn on the TV, listen to the radio, open a newspaper, or go on line these days there is a new scandal du jour erupting, giving our sensationalism-addicted, bottom-feeding media culture a reason for being. It&#8217;s gotten to be a competition to see who can shock America the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Self-esteem Problem</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/07/americas-self-esteem-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/07/americas-self-esteem-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we have a self-esteem problem in our country, but we don&#8217;t recognize it because, well, we have a self-esteem problem. We need look no further than the bewildering popularity of the reality-TV show Jersey Shore and the instant celebrity garnered from its inhabitants despite their complete absence of qualifications. Though, admittedly, the bar for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Popular Culture: We Are What We Consume</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/05/popular-culture-we-are-what-we-consume/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/05/popular-culture-we-are-what-we-consume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog post, I railed against popular culture as being an unhealthy force in our lives . In response, Dr. Lawrence Rubin, a fellow blogger who studies popular culture, commented that “If we simply consider popular culture as banality, it certainly seems meaningless…even potentially destructive. However, if instead we recognize that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Technology Making Us Idiots?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/02/is-technology-making-us-idiots/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/02/is-technology-making-us-idiots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his insightful 2008 article in the Atlantic, Nicolas Carr asks, &#8220;Is Google Making Us Stupid?&#8221; He goes on to explore how new technology has altered our reading habits and, more unsettlingly, how we process information and think. It is a cerebral piece that meets the high intellectual standards we expect of that august magazine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Civil Discourse Day – September 11, 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/01/national-civil-discourse-day-%e2%80%93-september-11-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/06/01/national-civil-discourse-day-%e2%80%93-september-11-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In two recent posts, I expressed significant concern for the increasingly angry and mean-spirited tone that our politicosphere has taken on in recent years and the corrosive effect it is having on our political system (here and here). Today, I would like to offer a first step in reversing the current descent of our discourse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Mistakes in the Race to the Top</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/28/three-mistakes-in-the-race-to-the-top/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/28/three-mistakes-in-the-race-to-the-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my recent post, Academic Rat Race a Race to Nowhere, I described the academic achievement rat race in which students near the top of the educational food chain strive maniacally to win (or at least finish). I argued that the emphasis on testing by former President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law (NCLB) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Anger in American Politics Good or Bad?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/27/is-the-anger-in-america-good-or-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/27/is-the-anger-in-america-good-or-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 02:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I have written about several times (here and here and here), the blogosphere and, more generally, the &#8220;politicosphere&#8221; has gotten pretty darned ugly these days. Gone are the days of passionate though reasoned discourse and respectful disagreement. Where the focus was on the common good, practical solutions, and where differences could be worked out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of What Value a High School Diploma?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/26/of-what-value-a-high-school-diploma/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/26/of-what-value-a-high-school-diploma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 10:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I ask this question rhetorically because there is a wealth of data demonstrating the value of a high school education in terms of higher income and greater career advancement compared to dropping out. But when I ask this question, I am also speaking specifically about the typical curriculum that high school offer and the jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Recipe for Civil Political Discourse</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/24/a-cocktail-for-civil-discourse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/24/a-cocktail-for-civil-discourse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 10:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to have a civil and substantive conversation about politics between people of differing (opposing!) ideologies these days? It sure doesn&#8217;t seem like it if you read the increasingly over-the-top blogosphere, listen to the hyperbolic talk radio, and watch the overblown 24/7 cable new channels. The result is a truly toxic &#8220;mocktail&#8221; that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Words I Wish Washington Would Learn</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/21/three-words-i-wish-washington-would-learn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/21/three-words-i-wish-washington-would-learn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 10:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent surveys have shown that trust and regard that Americans hold for their elected officials in Washington is at historic lows. And those government officials wonder why they are aren&#8217;t on anyone&#8217;s Most Popular list these days. Let me count the ways: bailouts, backroom deals, tax cuts for the wealthy, extreme partisanship, election-year politics, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs&#8217;s Diabolical Plan for Global Domination</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/19/steve-jobss-diabolical-plan-for-global-domination/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/19/steve-jobss-diabolical-plan-for-global-domination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t anyone else see what is so obvious to me? Or has Steve Jobs&#8217;s diabolical plan for global domination already reached a point that humans don&#8217;t even see what is happening to them? The whole iPhone (and iPod and iPad) thing is starting to sound like a 1950&#8242;s science fiction movie. If you&#8217;ve ever watched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol Palin: Speaker for Hire</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/18/bristol-palin-speaker-for-hire/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/18/bristol-palin-speaker-for-hire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like every day when I go on line I read something that causes me to think: &#8220;Another indication of the end of civilization as we know.&#8221; Well, this morning I had another one of those painful epiphanies when I read that Bristol Palin, the daughter of the former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Rat Race a Race to Nowhere</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/17/academic-rat-race-a-race-to-nowhere/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/17/academic-rat-race-a-race-to-nowhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Race to the Top is the name given to President Obama&#8217;s education-reform program that is supposed to change the education system in America. But what it should be called is Race to Nowhere, which happens to be the name of a powerful new documentary by Vicki Abeles that explores, as the film&#8217;s subtitle states, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much Time on Our Hands</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/14/too-much-time-on-our-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/14/too-much-time-on-our-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You read a lot lately about how busy we Americans are. That we don&#8217;t have time to do anything important, like paying the bills, spending time with family and friends, and taking care of our health. But I think much of America has the opposite problem; we seem to have too much time on our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Makes the Great Ones Great?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/13/what-makes-the-great-ones-great/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/13/what-makes-the-great-ones-great/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 12:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So what do Tom Brady, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt, Annika Sorenstam, Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong, and Lisa Leslie have that you don’t? This question has been on the minds of many people of late with the recent publication of Malclom Gladwell’s Outliers and Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code. If you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kagan the Right Choice for Dems&#8230;at this Moment</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/12/kagan-the-right-choice-for-dems-at-this-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/12/kagan-the-right-choice-for-dems-at-this-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, President Obama&#8217;s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court to replace the retiring John Paul Stevens has produced the usual political Kabuki theater from Republicans. The predictable litany of &#8220;concerns&#8221; about her qualifications, stances on legal issues, and judicial temperament are red meat for their constituents and fodder for the talking heads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The (Mis) Information Age</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/12/the-mis-information-age/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/taylor/2010/05/12/the-mis-information-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 10:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have just concluded what was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in our nation&#8217;s history. I&#8217;ve been thinking about what made this period so difficult. Unexpected and, in some cases, uncontrollable events certainly played a role. The 2000 Presidential election, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, [...]]]></description>
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