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Monday, February 20, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Great Moments In Total Cluelessness

Jersey Jazzman: Great Moments In Total Cluelessness:

Great Moments In Total Cluelessness

Is it possible to be more obtuse?
Backers of the new approaches say that change takes time. “You have to start the process somewhere,” said Daniel Weisberg, executive vice president and general counsel at The New Teacher Project, a nonprofit agency founded in 1997. “If you don’t solve the problem of teacher quality, you will continue to have an achievement gap.” [emphasis mine]
Uh...
But, according to the New Teacher Project, the difference between Chatham and Newark, or between Scarsdale