An Ed School Is No Place for a Teacher

By James R. Delisle

A decade ago, I left elementary-school teaching to become an assistant professor of education. Ten years, tenure, and two universities later, I am back in a public-school classroom--by choice, full time, on a one-year unpaid leave of absence from my university.

No more noontime racquetball matches on courts reserved for the faculty, no more Tuesday-evening classes (I taught only on Tuesdays), no more Friday-morning meetings to review yet another Holmes Group proposal for improving teacher education (our college is a charter member...

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