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Comment on: As Stephen Drew recovers, Red Sox need to pick a shortstop - Red Sox - Boston.com
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Comment on: Districts risk missing deadline to overhaul teacher evaluation system - News - Boston.com
The Massachusetts teachers are justified in holding their ground. The Value Added Measure that reformers claim will "upgrade" the evaluation systems is based on junk science and does nothing to improv more »
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Comment on: - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Here's the problem with the private sector running post offices: congress wouldn't allow them to close small, inefficient post offices because small inefficient post offices, like small inefficient sc more »
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Comment on: Romneyâs education plan offers serious, debate-worthy proposals - Editorials - The Boston Globe
There is no practical way to implement parental choice for students for several reasons. Jay Mathews pointed out two of those reasons in a Washington Post article earlier this week, "(First) there are more »
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Comment on: The governmentâs college money pit - Opinion - The Boston Globe
The amount of loans has increased because the cost of college has increased and the cost of college--- especially PUBLIC college--- has increased because of the "austerity" economics beloved of the Ca more »
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Comment on: Special education policies in Mass. reviewed - Metro - The Boston Globe
As a school administrator in five different districts in five different states, this is an unsurprising finding. Here's what is happening: as budgets get tighter, schools are cutting staff. These cuts more »
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Comment on: Imprisoned by their fears - Opinion - The Boston Globe
The gated community phenomenon is part of the privatization mentality in America. Gated communities have their own police force, their own road crews, their own "government", and their own infrastruct more »
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Comment on: The manufacturing myth - Opinion - The Boston Globe
My favorite quote from Adlai Stevenson applies here (and pretty much EVERYWHERE in this campaign season: "Americans are suckers for good news. Given a choice between disagreeable fact and agreeable fa more »
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Comment on: Getting to yes on teacher contract - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Getting to yes requires some kind of incentive for teachers to move away from the status quo. Why would teachers want to accept these changes? If the writers can answer that question progress could be more »
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Comment on: Educationâs coconut cake problem - Opinion - The Boston Globe
The management aphorism "What Gets Measured Gets Done" aptly describes the effects of No Child Left Behind. For the past decade, NCLB required State Departments of Education to use standardized profic more »
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Comment on: 'Survey offers portrait of Occupy Boston protesters’
Having visited and talked with OWS folks in NYC, I can assure readers they are NOT big fans of Obama... they are looking for a true representative democracy instead of the pay-to-play system we have i more »
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Comment on: Tensions over pensions - The Boston Globe
The business leaders and politicians own this problem. The business leaders who sent jobs offshore, gutted benefits, pensions and wages and fought against ANY tax increases to increase their bottom li more »
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Comment on: How to fix the pension mess - The Boston Globe
The public sector DB plans were negotiated in good faith at a time when the private sector offered them to employees. Now that the private sector has abandoned them in an effort to reduce cost and inc more »
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Comment on: Stimulus by another name - The Boston Globe
I think Joshua Green has it right... Obama is not capitulating, he is making a shrewd political calculation that two years from now when he is running he will be able to say "If elected I will insist more »
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Comment on: In good company: Welfare capitalism - The Boston Globe
Here's the problem: in an effort to inflate the bottom line companies have raced to the bottom on wages by ruthlessly relocating, outsourcing, and globalizing. As a result the people behind the counte more »
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Comment on: Public educationâs dire straits - The Boston Globe
Two points: First, the pensions and benefits are NOW more generous than those offered in the public sector and, compared to many white collar workers, teachers are paid fairly well. That's true becaus more »
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Comment on: 'Liberal grit in the fight for school choice'
State Senator Williams accurately observes that the heart of the problem with public education is that "...schools that are segregated by income, by ZIP code, by race". Vouchers will not solve the pro more »
The Drew brothers seem to be a bad bet for the Sox... Whether it's JD or Stephen it seems that their initials are the same: DL