Pausing to find my bearings
It’s been one heck of a month. As I noted a few weeks ago, I had a death in the family at the beginning of September, but for some reason I did not mention in that entry that my mother-in-law was the family member who had died. Because my wife is Peggy’s executor, we’ve had […]
Whitmire and Rotherham fall prey to faux-trend fallacy
If I were a union activist without an historical perspective, I’d say ouch with Richard Whitmire and Andy Rotherham’s WSJ opinion piece proclaiming a trend in news reporting on education and teachers unions. Or, to put it another way, there’s an op-ed in Rupert Murdoch’s new plaything proclaiming that a dying industry is giving birth […]