The Wonk Salon: April 14-15, 2011

Innovative Work Roles for Teachers
Center for American Progress
This study advocates alternatives for school staffing that make use of teachers’ outside-the-classroom talents. A program at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County is highlighted.

Nonprofit Hospitals More Likely to Sustain Unprofitable Services in Small Town America
National Bureau of Economic Research
For-profit hospitals in rural areas are quicker to cut unprofitable medical services; non-profit hospitals support them longer.

A New Way of Looking at the Bay
The Virginia News Letter
The Chesapeake Bay is more than a set of natural processes — it is socio-economic system, which is far more complex.