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Welcome to "The American School Board Journal" store. You can browse through our PDF articles by year and issue back through 2002. All of the articles are priced at $5.00 each. Just select the documents you want, create your account, enter your credit card information, and the document will be immediately available for download and printing. Document downloads will remain active in your account for 30 days from the date of purchase.

Current Issue

On The Cover

  		• Reform School
    Authored By: Del Stover, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270166
    Why doesn’t school reform always work? Put aside the programs and strategies that are flouted as solutions, and the reason is as simple as it is brutal: Reform is a tough slog, wi...
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Features

  		• The Second Tier
    Authored By: Lawrence Hardy, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270168
    Now, with weeks to go before Election Day, more pressing topics than education are vying for the candidates’ attention. Even the Ed in ’08 leaders, who pledged to spend $60 mi...
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  		• A Foundation for Success
    Authored By: Sara Mead, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270170
    As school districts work to improve student learning and narrow achievement gaps, it’s abundantly clear that starting in kindergarten is too late. Many students, particularly low-i...
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  		• The Turnaround
    Authored By: Frederick M. Hess and Thomas Gift, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270172
    Educational reformers are abuzz over school “turnarounds,” a simple idea with undeniable appear. Turnarounds offer the opportunity to take familiar educatio...
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  		• Restructuring the Infrastructure
    Authored By: Sajan George, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270174
    Public school system restructurings – incremental or wholesale, academic or financial – have become familiar occurrences around the country. What most restructured districts hav...
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  		• The Academic Audit
    Authored By: Rosa Gill, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270176
    Why should any school board audit the district’s academic programs? The answer is simple for failing districts: The patient is sick and needs a complete check-up. A curriculum mana...
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  		• The KIPP Phenomenon
    Authored By: Naomi Dillon, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270178
    What characterizes KIPP schools and, more importantly, their ability to make inroads with underperforming urban students? Called the Five Pillars, they are the following rules: ...
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Departments

  		• An Indespensible Partnership, Part II
    Authored By: Doug Eadie, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270193
    What can superintendents do to ensure that their relationships with board presidents are close, positive, and productive? Very early in the relationship, the superintendent can si...
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  		• November 2008 Up Front
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270185
    This month: Changes to the ADA Act effects schools; restructuring schools doesn’t improve student achievement; fewer soft drinks served at schools; 10 tips for written commun...
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  		• November 2008 Your Turn
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270183
    This month: You say, "ELL earning a 'Gentleman's C'." We ask: "Why does school reform fail?" ...
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  		• Learning in Place
    Authored By: Susan Black, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270187
    In a standards-based, test-driven reform era, is there value to be found in teaching children how to live and learn ecologically, politically, economically, and spiritually? Unde...
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  		• Needed: Constructive Advice
    Authored By: Edwin C. Darden, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270189
    Aside from personnel, a school district’s building stock is one of its biggest investments. Therefore, when the board and superintendent decide a new school building is neede...
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  		• The Write Stuff
    Authored By: Nora Carr, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270191
    Writing clearly is an art form. Unfortunately, it’s one that few of us in education have mastered. Rather than use everyday terms, we use jargon and acronyms. Somewhere, deep insid...
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  		• Excessive Expenditures
    Authored By: Charles K. Trainor, Date Published: 10/17/2008, Product#: 270195
    With a sluggish economy, reduced tax receipts, state payment reductions, and ballooning operating costs, school districts across the nation are under severe financial stre...
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