Nobody Likes a Brainiac by Jo Scott Coe (Nadie Le Gusta un Brianiac de Jo Scott Coe)
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
The following article Nobody Like a Brianiac was originally published in the March 14, 2004 L.A. Times by Jo Scott Coe, who is one of the National Education Reformers we publish on a daily basis at the end of our blog. She is also the author of Teacher at Point Blankabout her own experiences and the experience of others as public school teachers - a must read.
The only thing I would add to the excellent essay that follows is the observation that encouraging teachers to continue their own education is probably the best investment with the highest return that a society can make, given the incalculable return it gives to the generations of students one good teacher