Five Best Blogs: Should Violet Nichols Be Terminated?

Should Violet Nichols be terminated from her tenured teaching spot? ow.ly/blPC9 Once in a while, the WPost still does it

Romney's ed team dominated by folks from one think tank (Hoover), which can lead to groupthink, notes @heathbrown ow.ly/blqy9

Broad essentially a conservative, notes Fordham's @MichaelPetrilli ow.ly/blqbY Except for all that Democratic fundraising 

Des Moines superintendent resigns over explicit emails and cozy board relations ow.ly/bm5as 

Glad to hear that GOOD education editor Liz @losangelista Dwyer is still standing after the layoffs announced last week.

The Walton Family Foundation has a newish edreform Facebook page ow.ly/bm4Ke

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[Sarah]

Neither major candidate right now has an education department that’s balanced enough to get anything done in congress, in my opinion... Obama’s is looking a bit better than Romney’s, but only just so.