Extra Credit Reading: Thursday, January 18, 2007

Who would have thought that individuals making repeated bomb threats in order to disrupt schools would be a problem in Maine? Once again, that 'ole bugaboo the "looming teacher shortage" is raising its imaginary ugly head, this time in Kansas. (Here in California, every time a shortage "looms," the state lowers credentialing standards, thus flooding the labor market with newly-minted "emergency"