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Principal: Not the change I had in mind

  • 08-06-2010
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Guest blog by George Wood/Washington Post

I am still not over the sadness and anger I feel over what happened to my colleague, Joyce Irvine. Even though I have never met her, I call Ms. Irvine my colleague because of the way her work as principal of Wheeler Elementary School in Burlington, Vermont, has been described. As reported in the New York Times, parents are grateful for her leadership, she knows all of her students, she launched innovative programs, her teachers and her superintendent give her high marks, and even her U.S. senator has praised her work. And she has been fired. (more...)

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