Thursday, August 7, 2014

8-7-14 Jersey Jazzman

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Summertime Celebrity Education Ignorance: David Boies
1967 become known as the "Summer of Love."2014 will become known as the "Summer of Hate -- For Teachers Unions."Here in the steaming days of early August, the anti-union, anti-teacher, anti-tenure forces are whipping themselves into a froth over the idea that a school district might have to give a senior teacher a reason for not renewing her contract. Inspired by the widely bro






8-3-14 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: Campbell Brown, Meet Mike Mignone: The Whistle-blowing Teacher Whose Job Was Saved By TenureI have a wish:I wish that every time Campbell Brown made one of her many, many incoherent media appearances where she bad-mouths teachers unions and insists teachers don't need tenure...She would be forced to sit next to Mike Mignone.As I've reported before, Mignone -- a veteran middle schoo