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isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=349</guid> <description><![CDATA[Most universities have remedial math courses for students who have had difficulty getting to university math levels. However, few universities have remedial math DEPARTMENTS. UVU is one such university that has been forced to do this because of the low quality math skills of students who arrive at the university. For years the Utah State [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-uvu-remedial-math-situation/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Chronology of the NEA</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/chronology-of-the-nea/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/chronology-of-the-nea/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:06:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[constructivism]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=165</guid> <description><![CDATA[I came across this web page recently while doing some research on John Dewey and John Goodlad. Both men are cut from the same progressive, humanist cloth, and this page tells the incredible tale of how various education and government organizations are intimately tied together.  If you do a search for John Goodlad&#8217;s name, you [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/chronology-of-the-nea/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>One Step Ahead of the Train Wreck</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/one-step-ahead-of-the-train-wreck/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/one-step-ahead-of-the-train-wreck/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Higher Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Math]]></category> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=60</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kudos to David Wiley at BYU for his forward thinking on higher education. Check out this article in which he discusses the need for open learning. &#8220;At its core, the open education movement and the larger open content, copyleft movement has &#8220;a fundamental belief that knowledge is a public good and should be fully shared,&#8221; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/universities-will-be-irrelevant/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
