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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE BREAKFAST by Juanita Doyon

Filed under: WASL DEBUNKING CENTER: What's Wrong with the WASL?, Curriculum Planning — Dr. Bob Valiant at 6:59 am on Friday, August 22, 2003
WASL DEBUNKING CENTER: What's Wrong with the WASL? Curriculum Planning

Submitted by Juanita Doyon

“You can test some of the children all of the time. You can test all of the children some of the time. But there just ain’t no Lake Woebegone, man!”

Things Abraham Lincoln would say if he were a teacher in the twenty-first century.

I had the privilege of attending a free breakfast and school administrator training session put on by Washington State’s Partnership for Learning—education arm of the Washington [business] Roundtable—recently. The fruit and bagel were a privilege. It was downhill from there.
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