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The need for teacher tenure reform

My remarks, as sub­mit­ted, May 2, 2011 to the Michi­gan State Sen­ate Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee in sup­port of pro­posed tenure reform leg­is­la­tion. An abridged ver­sion of these remarks were pre­sented to the com­mit­tee on May4, 2011 in Lans­ing, MI.

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The outcomes of the GRPS Montessori Taskforce

On April 11, 2011, I spoke dur­ing the pub­lic com­ment sec­tion of the Grand Rapids Pub­lic Schools (GRPS) Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing about the work of the GRPS Montes­sori Task­force about the pos­i­tive out­comes to date of this multi-year col­lab­o­ra­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

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