Link: What does it take to get fired?

A recent New York Times article, “Found to Have Misbehaved With Pupils, but Still Teaching”, gives examples of teachers who did wildly inappropriate things in the classroom, but because of arbitration procedures, “14 of those 16 teachers are still...

Link: “The Rubber Room”

If you hear me use the phrase “rubber room,” I’m referring to this New Yorker article, an oldie but goodie (August 31, 2009) about teachers being paid not to teach: More than that, publicly educated children will continue to live in an alternate...