by Paul Hostovsky They’re talking about tying teacher payto teacher performance,and tying teacher performanceto student outcomes. They like to use words likeoutcomes. They probably don’t readmuch poetry, whoever they are,and wouldn’t know a good lineif they wrote one. I remember Mr. Westrich though,my seventh-grade English teacher, who diedin a boating…
by Perle Besserman First: What I love most about writing is being visited by characters who invite themselves onto the stage of my mind (or heart, or imagination, or dream life, or whatever you choose to call that place that is no actual “place” but is more real than the…