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Archive for August 27th, 2007

Joe can’t sleep thinking about charter and unions collaborating?
With Andy Rotherham on vacation, I’ve been kind of bored. No anti-union Democratic Party centrist to mock. And now Joe Williams says he’s going on vacation. But he left a little somethin’ behind.
Williams, the union-hating blogger at Democrats for Education Reform, sounds like he woke up in [...]

Laugh.

Posted by: preaprez on: August 27, 2007

“By the way, I have a pet theory about Alberto Gonzales: I’ve always believed that the reason the President called Gonzales Fredo was that when they first met, Bush incorrectly believed that Gonzales’ first name was Alfredo, and Gonzales was too much of a toady to correct him. I meant to download that theory before [...]

Once again the issue of retention.

Posted by: preaprez on: August 27, 2007

Once again we revisit the issue of teacher retention. The NY Times has a story by education writer Sam Dillon.
While some school critics who blog continue to put their heads in the sand, among other places, arguing over whether thirty percentĀ  or fifty percent of teachers are leaving the profession, the Times suggests that there [...]