1.0 link 65851 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-barrieanthony/get-out-of-their-darn-way_b_65851.html When Jackie Elliot made the switch to teaching, from a career in public health, she was 36-years-old and by no means a naïf - she understood that public education was not in the best possible shape. Still, in 1986 as a novice teacher at Pacoima Elementary School in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley, she was astonished at what she found, not just at Pacoima but all over the Los Angeles Unified School District. Classrooms and schools were filled to overflowing, individualized...

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