Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries – “In the next 10 years, over half of the nation’s nearly 3.2 million public school teachers will become eligible for retirement. Who will replace them? How do we attract and keep the best minds in the profession?” Not by calling teachers lazy and inept and tenure-protected and typical public servants with fat pension packages and no accountability. People don’t go into teaching for the pension, or the money. They go into it to support kids. They STAY in through dedication and through support from the community. It’s in that latter category that we’re failing.
- My commission from Adam Hughes at Boston Comic… – Nice.
- Tornado forecasting saved countless lives this week. Too bad Congress, including Alabama’s entire delegation, voted against maintaining forecast quality – “Clearly, Congressional Republicans were more interested in protecting the $5.5 billion in subsidies and foregone royalty payments for Big Oil—which collectively reported a total of more than $30 billion in first quarter profits this week—than they were in spending the $700 million necessary to literally save the lives of their constituents.” Yes, well, who’s donating more to their campaigns?
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