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		<title>Comment on Irving Adler, Author of Kids’ Science, Math Books, Dies at 99 by cash advance payday</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2012/10/books-media/authors-illustrators/irving-adler-author-of-kids-science-math-books-dies-at-99/#comment-23463</link>
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		<title>Comment on Our Battle of the Kids&#8217; Books is Back! by Steffaney Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/01/awards/our-battle-of-the-kids-books-is-back/#comment-23461</link>
		<dc:creator>Steffaney Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very excited by the imposing list of judges!  Ahhh, March...let the book-ball battles begin!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very excited by the imposing list of judges!  Ahhh, March&#8230;let the book-ball battles begin!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Participant Media To Give Spielberg’s &#8216;Lincoln&#8217; DVDs to All U.S. Middle and High Schools by bh</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/multimedia/participant-media-to-give-spielbergs-lincoln-dvds-to-all-u-s-middle-and-high-schools/#comment-23447</link>
		<dc:creator>bh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unless they address it specifically to the Library Media Specialist, most of us will never see them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unless they address it specifically to the Library Media Specialist, most of us will never see them.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Participant Media To Give Spielberg’s &#8216;Lincoln&#8217; DVDs to All U.S. Middle and High Schools by Helie Rock</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/multimedia/participant-media-to-give-spielbergs-lincoln-dvds-to-all-u-s-middle-and-high-schools/#comment-23443</link>
		<dc:creator>Helie Rock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is wonderful news!  How can we check to be sure our school is on the list to receive this DVD?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is wonderful news!  How can we check to be sure our school is on the list to receive this DVD?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Consider the Source: Convergence by Ahmed Fasih</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2012/09/opinion/consider-the-source/consider-the-source-convergence/#comment-23413</link>
		<dc:creator>Ahmed Fasih</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s a bit in Neal Stephenson&#039;s &quot;Cryptonomicon&quot; novel (which is partly set in the world of 1940s Bletchley Park, ULTRA, PURPLE, etc.), where Stephenson puts words in his Alan Turing character&#039;s mouth that your post reminded me of: 

‘There was this implicit belief, for a long time, that math was a sort of physics of bottlecaps. That any mathematical operation you could do on paper, no matter how complicated, could be reduced—in theory, anyway—to messing about with actual physical counters, such as bottlecaps, in the real world ... when mathematicians began fooling around with things like the square root of negative one, and quaternions, then they were no longer dealing with things that you could translate into sticks and bottlecaps. And yet they were still getting sound results ... Or at least internally consistent results ... Meaning that math was more than a physics of bottlecaps.’

If the modern requirement of mathematics being simply internally consistent was a reaction, as Alan Turing&#039;s character says, against math seen as a &quot;physics of bottlecaps&quot;, then this latter notion would be a reaction against the Greek notion of math as philosophy (abstract and for its own sake). The Greek notion and the modern notion are more similar to each other in their irrelevanting of physics to math---very interesting!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a bit in Neal Stephenson&#8217;s &#8220;Cryptonomicon&#8221; novel (which is partly set in the world of 1940s Bletchley Park, ULTRA, PURPLE, etc.), where Stephenson puts words in his Alan Turing character&#8217;s mouth that your post reminded me of: </p>
<p>‘There was this implicit belief, for a long time, that math was a sort of physics of bottlecaps. That any mathematical operation you could do on paper, no matter how complicated, could be reduced—in theory, anyway—to messing about with actual physical counters, such as bottlecaps, in the real world &#8230; when mathematicians began fooling around with things like the square root of negative one, and quaternions, then they were no longer dealing with things that you could translate into sticks and bottlecaps. And yet they were still getting sound results &#8230; Or at least internally consistent results &#8230; Meaning that math was more than a physics of bottlecaps.’</p>
<p>If the modern requirement of mathematics being simply internally consistent was a reaction, as Alan Turing&#8217;s character says, against math seen as a &#8220;physics of bottlecaps&#8221;, then this latter notion would be a reaction against the Greek notion of math as philosophy (abstract and for its own sake). The Greek notion and the modern notion are more similar to each other in their irrelevanting of physics to math&#8212;very interesting!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Participant Media To Give Spielberg’s &#8216;Lincoln&#8217; DVDs to All U.S. Middle and High Schools by LibGds</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/multimedia/participant-media-to-give-spielbergs-lincoln-dvds-to-all-u-s-middle-and-high-schools/#comment-23395</link>
		<dc:creator>LibGds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Am I reading this right that we won&#039;t have to do anything to receive the DVD?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Am I reading this right that we won&#8217;t have to do anything to receive the DVD?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Whodunit?: Mysteries Can Support the Common Core &#124; Listen In by Bruce Hale</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/collection-development/whodunit-listen-in-february-2013/#comment-23273</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Hale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sharon and Lizette,

I love this.  As a mystery author (the Chet Gecko Mysteries), I&#039;m so encouraged to see how mystery books can work with Common Core.  Great job!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sharon and Lizette,</p>
<p>I love this.  As a mystery author (the Chet Gecko Mysteries), I&#8217;m so encouraged to see how mystery books can work with Common Core.  Great job!</p>
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		<title>Comment on On the Radar: Top Picks from the Editors at Junior Library Guild: Snow and Ice: Books for the Elementary Reader by dumpster rental ct</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/on-the-radar-top-picks-from-the-editors-at-junior-library-guild-snow-and-ice-books-for-the-elementary-reader/#comment-23210</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey there would you mind stating which blog platform you&#039;re working with? I&#039;m looking to start 
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		<title>Comment on Kid Lit Authors, Illustrators Visit Sandy Hook Elementary School by Melissa Guion</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/authors-illustrators/kid-lit-authors-illustrators-visit-sandy-hook-elementary-school/#comment-23039</link>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Guion</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Kid Lit Authors, Illustrators Visit Sandy Hook Elementary School by John Schupf</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/authors-illustrators/kid-lit-authors-illustrators-visit-sandy-hook-elementary-school/#comment-23036</link>
		<dc:creator>John Schupf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Two good friends here--Tracy Dockray and Tad Hills-- I wonder if they know each other !!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two good friends here&#8211;Tracy Dockray and Tad Hills&#8211; I wonder if they know each other !!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Kid Lit Authors, Illustrators Visit Sandy Hook Elementary School by Katie Davis</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/authors-illustrators/kid-lit-authors-illustrators-visit-sandy-hook-elementary-school/#comment-23034</link>
		<dc:creator>Katie Davis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She was there in spirit!</description>
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		<title>Comment on Kid Lit Authors, Illustrators Visit Sandy Hook Elementary School by sallie</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/books-media/authors-illustrators/kid-lit-authors-illustrators-visit-sandy-hook-elementary-school/#comment-23030</link>
		<dc:creator>sallie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No mention of Joanna Cole?</description>
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		<title>Comment on Consider the Source: Why Do We Bother? by Stephanie</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/opinion/consider-the-source/consider-the-source-why-do-we-bother/#comment-22970</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on How Does Your Boss See You?: Proof That Principals Value Librarians by Marlon</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2012/09/careers/how-does-your-boss-see-you-proof-that-principals-value-librarians/#comment-22852</link>
		<dc:creator>Marlon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Nick&#8217;s Picks &#124; The Promise of Technology by cafe rouge vouchers</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2012/10/standards/nicks-picks-the-promises-of-technology/#comment-22804</link>
		<dc:creator>cafe rouge vouchers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Consider the Source: Why Do We Bother? by marc aronson</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/opinion/consider-the-source/consider-the-source-why-do-we-bother/#comment-22743</link>
		<dc:creator>marc aronson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree, portfolios and apprenticing are both excellent options, and as more or more kinds of education are available to students online, perhaps we will create new kinds of assessment and evaluation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree, portfolios and apprenticing are both excellent options, and as more or more kinds of education are available to students online, perhaps we will create new kinds of assessment and evaluation.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Librarians Sound Off: Not a Lack of Latino Lit for Kids, but a Lack of Awareness by Kamala Platt</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/01/books-media/collection-development/librarians-sound-off-not-a-lack-of-latino-lit-for-kids-but-a-lack-of-awareness/#comment-22656</link>
		<dc:creator>Kamala Platt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I sent the following to the NYTs after the article ran, but it was not published...
RE: “For Young Latino Readers, an Image Is Missing” by Motoko Rich, December 4 2012 (Education section…)
On 12/5/12 2:41 PM, Kamala Platt wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/education/young-latino-students-dont-see-themselves-in-books.html?hp&amp;_r=0

“For Young Latino Readers, an Image Is Missing” compels me to write: I concur with its premise--students benefit from finding themselves in books. I agree that schools need more Latina/o books. Yet, I find sad irony in the images missing from the article itself: those of Latina/o books and authors, and their publishers. In the Comments, Bobby Byrd notes that Rich fails to mention Independent Publishers like his Cinco Puntos Press. For starters, Rich misses Arte Público’s Piñata Books, Wings Press books like San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla’s award-winning biography of Emma Tenayuca, books from Pat Mora (her website lists over 30 children’s books, many bilingual) and Francisco Alarcon (two of his among 50 bilingual children’s books on a 2011 CCBC* list.) Latina/o children&#039;s books are flourishing despite lack of recognition on many fronts and having been explicitly excluded from classrooms by Arizona HB2281 &amp; subsequent Tucson rulings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sent the following to the NYTs after the article ran, but it was not published&#8230;<br />
RE: “For Young Latino Readers, an Image Is Missing” by Motoko Rich, December 4 2012 (Education section…)<br />
On 12/5/12 2:41 PM, Kamala Platt wrote:<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/education/young-latino-students-dont-see-themselves-in-books.html?hp&#038;_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/education/young-latino-students-dont-see-themselves-in-books.html?hp&#038;_r=0</a></p>
<p>“For Young Latino Readers, an Image Is Missing” compels me to write: I concur with its premise&#8211;students benefit from finding themselves in books. I agree that schools need more Latina/o books. Yet, I find sad irony in the images missing from the article itself: those of Latina/o books and authors, and their publishers. In the Comments, Bobby Byrd notes that Rich fails to mention Independent Publishers like his Cinco Puntos Press. For starters, Rich misses Arte Público’s Piñata Books, Wings Press books like San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla’s award-winning biography of Emma Tenayuca, books from Pat Mora (her website lists over 30 children’s books, many bilingual) and Francisco Alarcon (two of his among 50 bilingual children’s books on a 2011 CCBC* list.) Latina/o children&#8217;s books are flourishing despite lack of recognition on many fronts and having been explicitly excluded from classrooms by Arizona HB2281 &amp; subsequent Tucson rulings.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Are Dewey’s Days Numbered?: Libraries Nationwide Are Ditching the Old Classification System by Riley</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2012/09/librarians/are-deweys-days-numbered-libraries-across-the-country-are-giving-the-old-classification-system-the-heave-ho-heres-one-schools-story/#comment-22528</link>
		<dc:creator>Riley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 06:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on New Bites: American Indian Youth Lit, Gryphon, &amp; CBC Awards Announced by Debbie Reese</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/industry-news/new-bites-american-indian-youth-lit-gryphon-cbc-awards-announced/#comment-22447</link>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Reese</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, Phyllis, for pointing your readers to the American Indian Library Association&#039;s awards! 

For critical reviews of books by American Indian/First Nations authors, or about American Indians/First Nations people, please visit my site, American Indians in Children&#039;s Literature, located at americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, Phyllis, for pointing your readers to the American Indian Library Association&#8217;s awards! </p>
<p>For critical reviews of books by American Indian/First Nations authors, or about American Indians/First Nations people, please visit my site, American Indians in Children&#8217;s Literature, located at americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net</p>
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		<title>Comment on Consider the Source: Why Do We Bother? by Barbara McDowell Whitt</title>
		<link>http://www.slj.com/2013/02/opinion/consider-the-source/consider-the-source-why-do-we-bother/#comment-22432</link>
		<dc:creator>Barbara McDowell Whitt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marc  Aronson, thank you for this provocative essay citing differences between your two sons. As a retired reading consultant and classroom teacher, I have long held the thought that we should do away with the grading and testing that is presently the way we do American public school education. We should replace that practice with keeping portfolios of students&#039; work. Furthermore, children who do not do well within the confines of classrooms (and schools) could study as an apprentice from a mentor whose field of study matches the student&#039;s interest(s).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marc  Aronson, thank you for this provocative essay citing differences between your two sons. As a retired reading consultant and classroom teacher, I have long held the thought that we should do away with the grading and testing that is presently the way we do American public school education. We should replace that practice with keeping portfolios of students&#8217; work. Furthermore, children who do not do well within the confines of classrooms (and schools) could study as an apprentice from a mentor whose field of study matches the student&#8217;s interest(s).</p>
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