Laurel A. Rockefeller
We Need to Free Teachers: How Micro-managing Teachers is Undermining American Education
Originally posted June 26th, 2012 Recently a 16 year old friend complained about spell check trying to insert an apostrophe in one of her contractions on facebook. Whenever I speak to her in facebook chat, I find her words are so filled with mis-spellings and incorrect grammar that I cannot understand her. When I try to speak to her about this, she ignores me (typical of a 16 year-old!). Dismayed, I spoke to several public school teachers and university professors I know thro