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Friday, June 6, 2014

6-6-14 Jersey Jazzman : : So Why Didn't the Police Ever Investigate Michelle Rhee?

Jersey Jazzman: So Why Didn't the Police Ever Investigate Michelle Rhee?:










So Why Didn't the Police Ever Investigate Michelle Rhee?
Remember the "amusing" story of how Michelle Rhee, in her first year of teaching in Baltimore, taped her students' mouths shut? How she tried to find the "humor" in making her second graders bleed? Remember when Alex Russo told us, when he heard about the story: "I'm not so sure I'm all that worried."I wonder what might have happened had Rhee been a teacher in Elizabe








6-5-14 Jersey Jazzman : : Reformy Billionaires and the Money They Waste
Jersey Jazzman: Reformy Billionaires and the Money They Waste: Reformy Billionaires and the Money They WastePerhaps my favorite bad reformy argument -- one favored by Tom Moran, among others -- goes something like this:We should listen to billionaires when they opine about education because: 1) Well, they're billionaires, so they must know what they're talking about. 2) They don't have a direct st