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	<title>Comments on: The Great Thing About Semesters Is That They End</title>
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	<description>There may be a time and a place for everything.  The difficulty is figuring out when and where.</description>
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		<title>By: Xi Mena</title>
		<link>http://reassignedtime.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/the-great-thing-about-semesters-is-that-they-end/#comment-7947</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xi Mena]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#039;t tell you how many times I&#039;ve tried to get those above me to hear me when I try to explain this:  &quot;And I don’t hate teaching, and I don’t actually want to teach less.  I want the time to teach the way that I’m capable of teaching – I want time to really reflect on the work that I do as a teacher, to design new assignments, to think about the texts that I teach and to connect those ideas to the ways in which I present those texts to my students.  I want time to do my best by my students.  And that is the thing that is lost in the current structure of higher education, for tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty alike.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve tried to get those above me to hear me when I try to explain this:  &#8220;And I don’t hate teaching, and I don’t actually want to teach less.  I want the time to teach the way that I’m capable of teaching – I want time to really reflect on the work that I do as a teacher, to design new assignments, to think about the texts that I teach and to connect those ideas to the ways in which I present those texts to my students.  I want time to do my best by my students.  And that is the thing that is lost in the current structure of higher education, for tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty alike.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Xi Mena</title>
		<link>http://reassignedtime.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/the-great-thing-about-semesters-is-that-they-end/#comment-7946</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xi Mena]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amen sister!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amen sister!</p>
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		<title>By: jrlookingbill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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