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Union watch.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Linda Seebach ("Same Old, Same Old," features, Winter 2009) asserts that new leadership at both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) signifies no change in these organizations' policies or positions, a situation she finds untenable. The new national presidents have only been in office since July. Let's give them a little time before declaring their administrations moribund.
Ms. Seebach does point out at least one change that AFT president Randi Weingarten is advocating--community schools. While the author ridicules the idea, and it is true, Ms. Weingarten's maiden speech did not provide detail (yes, the devil is often in the details), the idea has considerable saliency among significant segments of the education and policy communites.
The notion of what Ms. Weingarten describes as community schools is not, as Linda Seebach suggests, that schools ...
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...corrected more thoroughly and prominently than in other forms of media. "We write and then our readers edit us," Hobbs said. Linda Seebach, a columnist for The Rocky Mountain News, said traditional media outlets are experimenting with involving bloggers in their...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Union watch.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)