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Friday, March 9, 2012

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves « InterACT

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The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

As I sit down to compose my thoughts at the end of this week, I’m sitting in an office on the ground floor of a building on the Stanford University campus.  (I teach three days a week and work for ACT two days a week).  I’m ruminating about the Met Life survey that came out this week, showing teacher morale around the country has reached a new low (EdWeek articleMet Life site).
Meanwhile, directly over my head on the third floor of this building, the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) is holding its Admit Day event to welcome prospective