July 08, 2008

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Adjunct America: open schools to part-time teachers, especially retired teachers

The four-day plus one-day week

The Scatological Connection

8 Creativity Fundamentals

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Video: Malcom Gladwell speaks about employment tests, hiring the best teachers, teacher quality, and class size reduction. This is really good!
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