Consider what follows as a possible approach to managing submissions when you have an outrageous number of high-school students in your writing classes. The bane of every teacher is having to be their editor on issues they should already have mastered. When you have 30+ students in a class, having to re-teach high school students … Continue reading Drinking from the Fire Hose
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Teacher Pay is a Symptom of the Problem
The analysis in this article was written as a letter to the editor of the Free-Lance Star, in response to an ongoing discussion (or lack thereof) about teacher pay. The gist of several previous letters has been that (1) teacher pay is not a priority because the schools can't afford it, so teachers are being … Continue reading Teacher Pay is a Symptom of the Problem