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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

  		• A Tangled Web
    Authored By: Naomi Dillon, Date Published: 11/17/2008, Product#: 270579
    Web-savvy kids are trying anything and everything to connect to their peers, but are not aware of the dangers that lurk in online communities. Teachers and, to a lesser extent, ...
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  		• Stop the Grooming
    Authored By: Michael A. Patterson and Donald F. Austin, Date Published: 11/17/2008, Product#: 270581
    School districts that want to protect students from sexual misconduct by staff should consider ways to prevent “sexual grooming,” a task that is dif...
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  		• The Red Flag
    Authored By: Edward F. Dragan, Date Published: 11/17/2008, Product#: 270583
    People who are passionate about school safety have a vision we share with concerned parents, educators, and especially with the kids we’re obliged to protect. In this vision...
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Features

  		• Proven Tools That Work
    Authored By: Chuck Longfellow, Date Published: 11/17/2008, Product#: 270585
    A good, functional phone system can work wonders with your school-home communications. Optimally, every classroom should have a phone with voice mail at the teacher’s desk, ...
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  		• Starting Over
    Authored By: lawrence Hardy, Date Published: 11/17/2008, Product#: 270587
    Disasters come in many forms, both natural and manmade, but school districts that are prepared for the worst are better able to get back up and running in the aftermath. Prepa...
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  		• A Good Alternative
    Authored By: Neal Cross, Date Published: 11/17/2008, Product#: 270589
    Well-designed alternative licensing programs can offer a strong support structure. With careful planning, the training can be much more potent than most district induction program...
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  		• Working It Out
    Authored By: Frederick M. Hampton, Date Published: 11/17/2008, Product#: 270591
    Some teachers and students will never “fit” traditional definitions. However, alternative schools should become more than vehicles to rid regular education programs of t...
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Departments

  		• December 2008 Up Front
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 11/18/2008, Product#: 270615
    This month: It's the economy, again; families stay close with technology; football related deaths raise safety concerns; Brownsville wins top honors from Broad, CUBE; rural ...
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  		• December 2008 Your Turn
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 11/18/2008, Product#: 270601
    This month: You say, "We're dealing with student migration." We ask: "Have you been hit hard by economic hard times?"...
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  		• Twist, Toss, and Turn
    Authored By: Susan Black, Date Published: 11/18/2008, Product#: 270603
    How would you handle the specter of a tornado spinning toward your school? What split-second decisions would you make? No single plan and no one decision is fool-proof when it co...
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  		• Setting the Rules
    Authored By: Edwin C. Darden, Date Published: 11/18/2008, Product#: 270605
    It is easy to see how school leaders can believe their power over district staff and property is absolute. That is particularly true when it comes to letting someone in or ke...
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  		• The Data Dashboard
    Authored By: Nora Carr, Date Published: 11/19/2008, Product#: 270668
    As Mark Twain famously quipped, “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” That’s why more school officials are turning to data dashboards and other Web-ba...
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  		• Accountability for Performance
    Authored By: Doug Eadie, Date Published: 11/18/2008, Product#: 270609
    One key to your school board performing as a truly high-impact governing body is for everyone to be accountable for their individual governing performance. Essentially, this invol...
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  		• Conflicted Interests
    Authored By: Charles K. Trainor, Date Published: 11/18/2008, Product#: 270611
    According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 14,200 public school districts nationwide are expected to spend $519 billion this school year. When managing suc...
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  		• When Danger Strikes
    Authored By: Joe Dysart, Date Published: 11/18/2008, Product#: 270617
    In a nod to the widespread use of mobile phones and other PDAs by students, a majority of campuses, 57 percent, still maintain that text messaging is their emergency notification ...
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