You won't want to miss this week's Gadfly. Checker and Stafford explain why community schools (as espoused by the Broader, Bolder folks and Randi Weingarten over at the AFT) are the antithesis of David Whitman's paternalistic model. Mike has no sympathy for a schools in a struggling economy--fire bad teachers, quoth he! Then, get the deets on a strange new safe haven law in Nebraska, which is redefining "child" to be all youth up to age 19, and the new Tom Loveless study on the sad state of algebra.
