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 Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. My earliest writing was done near a window. During my childhood in Minnesota, it was often too snowy to go outside, but my second-floor bedroom window was near a tree, and I sat by that tree like some devotees sit near their guru. As a…
