Over in the New Yorker, Steven Brill discusses “the battle over New York City’s worst teachers“: These fifteen teachers, along with about six hundred others in six larger Rubber Rooms in the city’s five boroughs, have been accused of misconduct, such as hitting or molesting a student, or, in some cases, of incompetence, in a [...]
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