Feeling Down? Think Public Ed has Failed? Read This!
This is a good week to remember heroic teachers: the teachers who led their children, holding hands, away from the smoking World Trade Center towers on 9/11; the teachers in Baton Rouge and Houston who welcomed a dozen terrified "Katrina kids" into their already-overcrowded classrooms, improvising seating, books and assignments.
This amazing story from Vermont crossed my desktop today:
I'm sure you've all heard about Hurricane Irene's effects on our small, beautiful state. Maybe you've also heard about the heroic efforts of the state's teachers in ensuring that students have a school to attend. I just came back from one such school in tiny Moretown, a community
