Why do people become educators? Why do educators become administrators? And why do people out in the public – with no educational training – sign up to become school board members?
A Facebook note from New York superintendent Kimberly Moritz got me thinking:
I want to leave education when my time [...]


Is South Dakota Racing to the Top? Seems nobody knows. The education news is full of stories about states competing for the single largest amount of discretionary money ever directed toward education – 4.3 Billion dollars — but things are uncomfortably quiet here.
The Race to the Top 



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