Regarding last week's News and Analysis ("An apple from the teachers," 10-12): Typically, you make it sound like it's an "either/or" situation. Apparently you'd be boggled by a candidate who might be "teacher recommended" and "parent recommended." Framing the debate this way--as if parent recommended and teacher recommended are mutually exclusive--is too typical of the reductionist thinking the current administration uses as its political bludgeon. I was hoping you folks would be able to break through that ideological straitjacket and consider more possibilities.
Bil Johnson
Brown University Education Department