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Around The Horn

E3’s Derrell Bradford has Jersey style social promotion (hat tip Joanne Jacobs).

Elizabeth Green notes a surprise Jon Schnur departure from USDOE. Reformland = bummed.

Flowers and Sausages describes real life teacher hiring committees. With bacon.

Jay Mathews wonders if he’s an empty-headed optimist; reports on AFT innovation $ from Broad and Gates.

And finally:

He stinks. But he rocks!

—Guestblogger Mike Goldstein

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One Response to “Around The Horn”

Josh D. Says:
May 5th, 2009 at 7:45 am
So it only took one day for the Guest blogger to inject their Bostonian bias opinions into this fine blog.

Josh
New York City, New York

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