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Monday, March 21, 2011

The Planets Align...

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Interesting how that happens sometimes: Last week the New York Times ran a stunning piece about the investments made by the Libyan dictator...
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St. Michelle's Miracles

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The World's Greatest Woman is so wonderful she can increase student learning just through her magical aura ! Consider, for example, tha...

The Question Never Asked

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I've noticed a pattern lately in all of the discussion about teacher quality. Nobody seems to want to ask an obvious question: How big...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Koches Get What They Pay For

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Well, this explains quite a bit, doesn't it? The Democratic candidate for governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has been receiving campai...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

"Mommy, why do people hate teachers?"

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Whoa: When I picked up my first grader from school today, at five o'clock because I work late on Fridays, he told me a gut-wrenching ta...
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What Corporate Reform Is Really About

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As I've been writing about the corporate reform movement over the past year, I've been thinking a lot about the reasons why a group ...
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How To Talk Like a Reformer

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I had promised myself that I was done with Laura Waters and her increasingly insipid blog; however, this post is so typical of the shallow a...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Merit Pay In the "Real" World

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Everybody knows that in the "real" world, you get fired if you don't do your job. Teachers have been coddled with "jobs f...
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Simple Answers to Simple Questions - NJEA Edition

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Barbara Keshishian, in an excellent rejoinder to a l azy and ill-informed editorial by the Star-Ledger , asks a simple question: How can T...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Why is PolitFact Ignoring Chris Christie?

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Given the way the national media is falling all over itself to praise the "hot and sexy" Chris Christie... ...I find it odd that...