Among the various hats I wear (though please don’t tell Checker “School boards are an aberration, an anachronism, an educational sinkhole. Put this dysfunctional arrangement out of its misery” Finn) is that of member of the Board of Education. I have written about my tiny upstate school district in Education Next and from time to time will blog about my adventures as a public official. It ain’t fun, but I’m not ready yet to agree with my new boss that it is a sinkhole…Read it here.
Peter Meyer is an adjunct fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Meyer is also a former News Editor of Life magazine and the author of numerous nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed The Yale Murder (Empire Books, 1982; Berkley Books, 1983) and Death of Innocence (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1985; Berkley Books, 1986). Over the course of his three-decade journalism career Meyer, who…
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