A few days ago I was having dinner with two friends. As we prepared for an upcoming presentation a simple question was raised: What has inspired you this year? I am inspired by the teachers I work with every day.
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A Letter to Mr. Barrett and My Mother
Competition can be a wonderful tool to promote success among schools. However, by definition, competition means some will fail in their efforts. How do we protect the students whose schools will collapse in such a model? It will happen, just like there have already been catastrophic failures of schools that are public, private, and charter.
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When I want to measure all my hard work at the gym, I use a scale. When I want to see I how much carpet I need to put in my house, I use a tape measure to measure the
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