Trip Gabriel's NYT story (G.O.P. Governors Take Aim at Teacher Tenure) is yet another one of those "less than meets the eye" things that we've been getting a lot of lately, semi-speculative pieces where proposals and a handful of examples get conflated -- implicitly if not explicitly -- with things actually taking place. We saw this kind of speculative journalism happen with teacher layoffs last year and more recently with the "growing momentum" behind a NCLB reauthorization. Sure, Governors in Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Nevada and New Jersey want to revamp tenure laws. Sure, some folks have announced legislation. Something might happen! I must cover it! But as far as I know nothing has actually happened yet nor is there a case to be made
