Thursday, March 15, 2012

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Thanks Met Life!

Recent release of the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, is great…if you’re a statistics student looking for a great example of a downward trend-line(1). If you’re a teacher however, it just confirms everything you knew, suspected, or are living. The results have many of our best and brightest looking into an earlier than expected retirement.
I can’t help thinking that this is all part of a plan, but that while I may be saying “I told you so,” by the end of


Wonder what those Waldorf schools are going to do?

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
via New York Times

Rich kids. If they are up-to-date, just the two encyclopedias on the shelves in the
foreground cost more than a set of 20 tablets or netbooks, plus wireless access
points, would have cost. (
New York Times photo by Jim Wilson)
From Ira David Socol’s Class War at The New York Times