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It could happen: we could wake up

I’ve just read a piece in the New York Times about the stiff competition among Ivy League graduates for a berth in Teach for America, a program designed to recruit and train teachers for poor, urban schools: <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/education/12winerip.html?scp=2&sq=education&st=cse> When Ivy … Continue reading

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I read the news today- oh boy.

I need to know what’s going on in the world. As soon as I make my coffee in the morning, I park myself at my computer and start in on the news. My reading of the news is selective. For … Continue reading

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