from the Globe, where the editorial board's head is about to explode:
NORTHAMPTON — Don’t make the mistake of talking
about “teacher training” to Barbara Madeloni.
“Oh, please don’t use the word training,” she
chided a reporter. “We educate teachers. We don’t train them. We train dogs.
And I love dogs.”
Beacon Hill better get used to that sharply
pointed, confrontational style.
The 57-year-old former psychologist turned
teacher won her race by openlycriticizing the current union president,
Paul Toner, for his record of negotiating with — rather than fighting —
officials on the development of teacher assessments and the Common Core, a set
of national education standards adopted in Massachusetts and 43 other states.A
self-described social justice activist from the liberal college town of
Northampton, Madeloni was until recently a complete unknown in political circles.
But her upset election last month as president of the 110,000-member
Massachusetts Teachers Association has already jolted lawmakers and officials
worried about the dawn of a more adversarial relationship with the state’s
largest union. . . .
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