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		<title>Teaching Authenticity: The Marcelo Lucero Project</title>
		<link>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/04/teaching-authenticity-the-marcelo-lucero-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following the Marcelo Lucero story in the news for past couple of years. He was an Ecuadorian immigrant who had fallen victim to racism and prejudice and was murdered in November 2008 in Patchogue, Long Island. The perpetrators were white teenagers who went out looking to "beat a Mexican" and found and killed Marcelo Lucero instead (ever heard of the phrase, "we all look alike?")]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Learning/Real Learning</title>
		<link>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/04/re-learningreal-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes them different from other adult learners, especially their American native-born counterparts, is the urgency by which they view the process of English language acquisition: a matter of survival, so to speak.  Their lives hinge on the few words they could learn so they could use them to take the train, negotiate for goods, and speak with their neighbors.]]></description>
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		<title>Profiles in the Land of Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/03/profiles-in-the-land-of-opportunit/</link>
		<comments>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/03/profiles-in-the-land-of-opportunit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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I am one of the millions of Americans looking for a job in this economy. A daunting task, notwithstanding credentials under our belt. In the Internet economy, a new marketplace has been created for job seekers, only less than a decade old. Much of the conversation occurs online through social networking, Email, and career websites. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adult Learners: The Missing Angle in K-12</title>
		<link>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/03/adult-learners-the-missing-angle-in-k-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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In two high profile articles in The New York Times Magazine and Newsweek, the country is reminded once again that not only does K-12 education have collosal challenges, some teachers now have to go.  
He knew how to advise schools to adopt a better curriculum or raise standards or develop better communication channels between teachers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Online with { We Speak America }</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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Inspiration for { WS★}
One of last year&#8217;s highlights was meeting Bill Drayton, Founder and CEO of Ashoka, an organization that promotes the citizen sector as change agents with innovative solutions to the world&#8217;s most pressing social problems.    Drayton was a trailblazer in social entrepreneurship (a term he coined himself).    Because of him, it has become much easier to find change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Class Citizens</title>
		<link>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/02/second-class-citizens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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Watching last night&#8217;s &#8220;Digital Democracy: Who Decides What&#8217;s Next?&#8221; on PBS, I ran into a quote by the President and CEO of Knight Foundation.  I eventually found it on their website:
We believe that if you&#8217;re not digital, you&#8217;re a second-class citizen. You&#8217;re second-class in access to information and second class economically and even socially. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bottom of the Pyramid</title>
		<link>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/02/the-bottom-of-the-pyramid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power&#8230;that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. &#8211; Franklyn D. Roosevelt
One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From (dot) org to (dot) com</title>
		<link>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/02/from-dot-org-to-dot-com/</link>
		<comments>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/02/from-dot-org-to-dot-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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{ We Speak America } will eventually be an internet-based workplace, vocational, and language-based portal for low-wage workers and immigrants.    I imagine an internet school that encompasses the four basic skills:  Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking.    The big chunk of work is getting to that place.    When I created the business plan for the organization, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Passion to Organization</title>
		<link>http://wespeakamerica.org/2010/02/turning-passion-to-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bino</dc:creator>
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Having visualized this organization for the past few years and having created a business plan around it at Harvard, I can see what it looks like at the end of this voyage.   Just like for many people who attempt to create organizations and enterprises, for me, the voyage itself is still a blur.  
Come 2010.  I [...]]]></description>
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