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Daily Archives: May 20th, 2007

How is ‘conflict of interest’ so hard to understand?

Via Schools Matter, a link to this NYT editorial, Putting More Profit Before Education (quoted in full): Published: May 19, 2007 The United States Department of Education has been rightfully drawn (but not yet quartered) in Congress for failing to prevent the kickbacks, payoffs and self-dealing recently uncovered in the student loan business. Now it [...]

Pull and Push

The last day of school was Friday, and I’m scrambling now to bring together all the administrative loose ends that need to be cleaned up before the final contract day. Every year on the last day of school just before the final dismissal, we have a tug-of-war contest with the outgoing sixth-grade class. We faced [...]