Category: Articles
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7 Signs of Effective School Board Members
Local control of education through elected school boards is a deeply held American political tradition. School boards may be small and local, but they represent perhaps the most important daily civic commitment we as citizens make to our communities, our children, and our future. via 7 Signs of Effective School…
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The United States of education: The changing demographics of the United States and their schools
The face of our nation is changing, and nowhere is the change more evident than in public school classrooms. Just consider this: Compared with the last century, we are increasingly aging and white on the one hand and young and multi-hued on the other. More and more of us were born…
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Gallup.com – The Gallup Blog: Three Actions U.S. Principals Can Take to Increase Teacher Engagement
What teachers need more than anything else right now are better managers. Teachers need principals who listen to them and treat them like valued, trusted colleagues. Gallup research has consistently shown the critical role of managers in engaging their team members. via Gallup.com – The Gallup Blog: Three Actions U.S.…
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Time to Revisit the Public-Private Debate | PA TIMES Online
http://patimes.org/time-revisit-public-private-debate/#comment-2041
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The Budget as the Financial Plan | PA TIMES Online
http://patimes.org/budget-financial-plan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+patimes%2FlidQ+%28PA+TIMES+Online%29
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John Stoker: How Fake Talk Prevents Productivity – Forbes
Fake Talk can be defined as any time a person intentionally misrepresents the truth, is unintentionally vague or unclear, when people go along to be agreeable or not rock the boat, and when people are focused on being politically correct rather than discuss and understand the finer nuances of what…
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Public Goods and Sustainable Community Development | PA TIMES Online
We need to make and express the connections between public goods [noted examples are infrastructure and education] and healthy communities. We need to revive traditional means of funding services and develop new broad-based funding sources that do not damage the economy. Instead of fighting a war on taxes, we need…
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Bravo! | “Poem” Is Not a Four-Letter Word | Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/poem-not-4-letter-word-gregory-webster?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29
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Sustainability: A Vital Public Administration Value | PA TIMES Online
Except for those directly involved in administering environmentally-oriented activities, consideration of sustainability is unlikely to intersect our professional interests in public administration. The purpose of this short article is to argue that this separation of the concept of sustainability from public administration is no longer appropriate and that the time…
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NYTimes: What It Takes to Make New College Graduates Employable
NYTimes: What It Takes to Make New College Graduates Employable http://nyti.ms/19G8ekR
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