There are these people who have this test that tells us how we compare to everyone else in school. These people are the US Department of Education’s Institute of Educational Statistics. Their test is the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. It’s also known as the “Nation’s Report Card.” There are actually a series

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Teaching is one of those jobs that everyone thinks they can do better than you. The general public seems to forget that the most critics of public education have never been asked to motivate and engage 40 disinterested students packed into a tiny classroom with paint chips raining down from the ceiling. I was not

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