WEEKEND QUOTABLES
Election Results
"Mitt Romney is the president of white male America." -- Maureen Dowd, NYTRehabilitating Michelle Rhee
Debate about how to improve schools will continue, as in the sadly effective effort by the teachers union in Chicago and in some election-day initiatives to defeat reform. Evidence that the common-sense changes engineered by Ms. Rhee are paying off should be part of the discussion and hopefully will spur other systems to follow the District’s lead. -- Washington Post editorialTesting: Enough is enough
About a month and a half ago, astute journalists covering the historic Chicago teachers’ strike realized the issues brought up by the strike weren’t just about money, but were also a reaction to the tsunami of testing that is overwhelming teachers and students. -- Lisa Guisbond of FairTest
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| 'YOLO --"You only live once" |
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