Many of the people who responded to my post that invited consideration of high school teaching as an alternative to being an adjunct faculty member commented on the state of secondary education in America. I wonder if they might be interested in reading a piece on the subject that I had in July 2008 issue of The Ripon Forum, the title of which is, “What are ‘World Class’ Schools?”
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