Deeming Interns ‘Qualified’ is Harmful to Students

Education Week Letter to the Editor, published January 25, 2011: To the Editor: The Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gift President Barack Obama signed into law on Dec. 22, 2010, that will allow states to classify teaching interns (students earning teaching certificates and endorsements) as “highly qualified” was a giant lump of educational coal to our nation’s minority, low-income,

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Why does Michigan want Governor Nerd?

Michigan newspapers have endorsed Rick Snyder to be our next governor; an outsider, a nerd, and never having held a public office, or pushed through a piece of legislation, let alone navigated a term-limited partisan-shackled legislature.  When students with disabilities are in a “critical area of learning” our public schools provide them with an “extended

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