The School Administrator 1998: Vol 55 Index

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INDEX 1998
The School Administrator
1998 Subject Index
Referenced by Volume(NumbePra)ge
Financing school athletic programs Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community:
Corporate pitch for athletics: 55(10)23-28 55(6)41
Ackerman, Arlene (superintendent, District of Columbia)
Marketing scholastic sports: 55(10)30-31 Leading Your Team to Excellence: 55(1)41
[Profile]: 55(7)43
Negotiating a favorable soft-drink contract: 55(10)25 Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader: 55(5)56
Gender equity: Parity on the playing field: 55(10)32-36 A New Vision for Staff Development: 55(3)41
AASA
Available resources: 55(10)36 Paradoxical Thinking: 55(8)56
AASA exhibitors at national conference: 55(2)54-55
What's compliance according to the Office for Civil Rights? Political Leadership and Educational Failure: 55(9)49
Annual report 1997: 55(3)AR1-AR8
55(10)34 In Praise of Education: 55(5)56
Home-schooled students’ rights to play varsity sports: The Principal as Steward: 55(1)41
Abstracts
55(10) 18-22 Professional Learning Communities at Work: 55(10)73
Baby boom echo and school enrollments: 55(6)40
Relying on law and the lawyer: 55(10)22 The Public Purpose of Education and Schooling: 55(2)57
Delayed entry: 55(7)40
Legislative gamesmanship: State legislators interfere with the Public Schools /Private Enterprise: 55(5)56
Dropouts data: 55(4)40; 55(10)70
conduct of school sports: 55(10)37-41 Revolutionizing America’s Schools: 55(8)56
Expenditures study: 55(5)54
Managing the risks of school sports: 55(10)42-46 A Roadmap for Quality Transformation in Education: 55(11)49
Federal financial support: 55(5)54
Additional resources: 55(10)46 School Administration: The New Knowledge Base: 55(10)73
Flawed bilingual research: 55(2)56
Middle school sports: 55(10)52-56 School-Based Budgets: Getting, Spending and Accounting:
Non-resident fathers: 55(10)70
Available resources: 55(10)56 55(4)41
Parental involvement: 55(7)40; 55(9)48
NCAA’s misguided role in school reform: 55(10) 14-16 The School-to-Work Revolution: 55(2)57
Revenue study: 55(11)48
Sportsmanship: Two superintendents views: 55(10)48-51 Shell Game: Corporate America’s Agenda for Schools: 55(6)41
Rural student migration: 55(3)40
Resources on sportsmanship: 55(10)50 Teaching and Joy: 55(5)57
Student habits: 55(6)40
Team Leadership: School Boards at Work: 55(4)41
Teacher aides: 55(8)54
The War Against Parents: 55(9)49
Teachers’ job satisfaction: 55(1)40
13 Proven Ways to Get Your Message Across: 55(7)41
Top and bottom schools: 55(8)54
Welfare effects: 55(11)48
Barber, Benjamin (political scientist, Rutgers University) on schools Books influencing leaders’ thinking
Accountability (see also School reform) for democracy: 55(5) 10-12 Cortines, Ramon on Waiting for a Miracle: 55(6)6
Bennett, William J.( former U.S. education secretary) on values for Deck, Linton on The Functions of the Executive: 55(6)13+
Where’s the accountability in education reform?
educators: 55(5)38-40 Gil, Libia on Flighotf the Buffalo: 55(6) 11
[Guest Column]: 55(5)50
Berman, Sheldon H. (superintendent) on empathy, ethics and Hicks, Thomas A. on Experience and Education: 55(6)8
Alternative schools service: 55(5)27-32 Irwin, Pi on The Little Prince: 55(6)9
McGarry, Thomas on Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 55(6)7+
Reducing out-of-school suspensions through alternative
Board relations (see also School board-superintendent relations) Smith, Roland on Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and
placements: 55(1)32
A superintendent forges shared philosophy through book Man’s Search for Meaning: 55(6) 12+
America’s Promise campaign discussions: 55(6) 16-18 Wilhoyte, Cheryl on Leadership Without Easy Answers:
In shark-infested waters, it’s wise to be wary: 55(7)34 55(6)10
Powell, Colin L. on nurturing needy youth through America’s
Promise: 55(6)34 Putting a limit on boorish boards (Guest Column]: Ordering these books: 55(6) 14
55(10)66
Reaction to Lee M. Silver's frustrations with school boards Brain research and learning
Assessment
Additional resources: 55(11)22 {Letters}: 55(6)4 Additional resources: 55(1) 16
Try experiential learning to educate your board: 55(8)38 Abbott, John (president, 21° Century Learning Initiative) on
Herman, Joan (associate director, National Center for Research
building a learning community founded on research in
on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at UCLA) on the
Book reviews neurology and evolutionary psychology: 55(1) 17-21
state of performance assessments: 55(11)17-22
Further reading: 55(11)22 Altered Destinies: Making Life Better for Schoolchildren in Need: Caine, Renate Nummela (executive director, Center for Research
55(10)73 in Integrated Learning/Teaching) and Geoffrey Caine
What constitutes a quality assessment: 55(11)20
The Challenge of School Change: 55(4)41 (adult learning consultant) on applying brain research to
Marzano, Robert (McREL deputy director, Aurora, Colo.) on
rethinking tests and performance tasks: 55(11) 10-12 Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to the classroom: 55(1)12-16
Rebuild America: 55(1)41 Twelve brain/mind learning principles: 55(1) 14
Sanders, William (University of Tennessee professor) on using
Common Schools, Uncommon Futures: 55(5)57 Reaction to brain research features (January 1998) Energized
value-added assessment to measure student progress:
55(11)24-27 Cruising Rules: Relationships at Sea: 55(7)41 by brain coverage; the brain and preschool learning; good
In Defense of Good Teaching: 55(11)49 additions to our vocabulary: 55(4)4; Relevancy of brain
Additional readings on value-added assessment:
55(11)27 Dewey's Laboratory School: Lessons for Today: 55(3)41 stories: 55(5)4; Another brain discoverer [Letters]: 55(5)4;
Financing Schools for High Performance: 55(9)49 A brainy resource [Letters]: 55(6)5; A 20-year flashback
One district’s use of value-added assessment: 55(11)30-32
Responding to the critics: 55(11)32 Fundamentals of School Scheduling: 55(8)56 {Letters}: 55(8)5
Stiggins, Richard (assessment consultant) on confronting the Growing Up Digitak: 55(11)49 Sousa, David (former superintendent) on ramifications of
barriers to effective assessment: 55(11)6-9 How Schools Might Be Governed and Why: 55(3)41 brain research: 55(1)22-25
Additional readings: 55(11)9 Improving Student Learning: 55(6)41 Sternberg, Robert (Yale psychology professor) on theory of
Inventing Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational Reform: intelligence for unearthing students’ talents: 55(1)26-31
What's wrong with teaching to the test?: 55(11)14-16
55(2)57 Elementary principal applies Sternberg’s theory of intelligence:
Athletics Kids and School Reform: 55(7)41 55(1)28-29
Athletic eligibility: Right or privilege?: 55(10)6-10 The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies and Practices Sylwester, Robert (author, A Celebration of Neurons) on new
The attraction of foreign-exchange athletes: 55(10)10 for the Next Era: 55(5)57 developments in cognitive science: 55(1)6-10
44 The School Administrator December 1998
INDEX 1998
The School Administrator
1998 Subject Index
Referenced by Volume(NumbePra)ge
Financing school athletic programs Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community:
Corporate pitch for athletics: 55(10)23-28 55(6)41
Ackerman, Arlene (superintendent, District of Columbia)
Marketing scholastic sports: 55(10)30-31 Leading Your Team to Excellence: 55(1)41
[Profile]: 55(7)43
Negotiating a favorable soft-drink contract: 55(10)25 Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader: 55(5)56
Gender equity: Parity on the playing field: 55(10)32-36 A New Vision for Staff Development: 55(3)41
AASA
Available resources: 55(10)36 Paradoxical Thinking: 55(8)56
AASA exhibitors at national conference: 55(2)54-55
What's compliance according to the Office for Civil Rights? Political Leadership and Educational Failure: 55(9)49
Annual report 1997: 55(3)AR1-AR8
55(10)34 In Praise of Education: 55(5)56
Home-schooled students’ rights to play varsity sports: The Principal as Steward: 55(1)41
Abstracts
55(10) 18-22 Professional Learning Communities at Work: 55(10)73
Baby boom echo and school enrollments: 55(6)40
Relying on law and the lawyer: 55(10)22 The Public Purpose of Education and Schooling: 55(2)57
Delayed entry: 55(7)40
Legislative gamesmanship: State legislators interfere with the Public Schools /Private Enterprise: 55(5)56
Dropouts data: 55(4)40; 55(10)70
conduct of school sports: 55(10)37-41 Revolutionizing America’s Schools: 55(8)56
Expenditures study: 55(5)54
Managing the risks of school sports: 55(10)42-46 A Roadmap for Quality Transformation in Education: 55(11)49
Federal financial support: 55(5)54
Additional resources: 55(10)46 School Administration: The New Knowledge Base: 55(10)73
Flawed bilingual research: 55(2)56
Middle school sports: 55(10)52-56 School-Based Budgets: Getting, Spending and Accounting:
Non-resident fathers: 55(10)70
Available resources: 55(10)56 55(4)41
Parental involvement: 55(7)40; 55(9)48
NCAA’s misguided role in school reform: 55(10) 14-16 The School-to-Work Revolution: 55(2)57
Revenue study: 55(11)48
Sportsmanship: Two superintendents views: 55(10)48-51 Shell Game: Corporate America’s Agenda for Schools: 55(6)41
Rural student migration: 55(3)40
Resources on sportsmanship: 55(10)50 Teaching and Joy: 55(5)57
Student habits: 55(6)40
Team Leadership: School Boards at Work: 55(4)41
Teacher aides: 55(8)54
The War Against Parents: 55(9)49
Teachers’ job satisfaction: 55(1)40
13 Proven Ways to Get Your Message Across: 55(7)41
Top and bottom schools: 55(8)54
Welfare effects: 55(11)48
Barber, Benjamin (political scientist, Rutgers University) on schools Books influencing leaders’ thinking
Accountability (see also School reform) for democracy: 55(5) 10-12 Cortines, Ramon on Waiting for a Miracle: 55(6)6
Bennett, William J.( former U.S. education secretary) on values for Deck, Linton on The Functions of the Executive: 55(6)13+
Where’s the accountability in education reform?
educators: 55(5)38-40 Gil, Libia on Flighotf the Buffalo: 55(6) 11
[Guest Column]: 55(5)50
Berman, Sheldon H. (superintendent) on empathy, ethics and Hicks, Thomas A. on Experience and Education: 55(6)8
Alternative schools service: 55(5)27-32 Irwin, Pi on The Little Prince: 55(6)9
McGarry, Thomas on Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 55(6)7+
Reducing out-of-school suspensions through alternative
Board relations (see also School board-superintendent relations) Smith, Roland on Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and
placements: 55(1)32
A superintendent forges shared philosophy through book Man’s Search for Meaning: 55(6) 12+
America’s Promise campaign discussions: 55(6) 16-18 Wilhoyte, Cheryl on Leadership Without Easy Answers:
In shark-infested waters, it’s wise to be wary: 55(7)34 55(6)10
Powell, Colin L. on nurturing needy youth through America’s
Promise: 55(6)34 Putting a limit on boorish boards (Guest Column]: Ordering these books: 55(6) 14
55(10)66
Reaction to Lee M. Silver's frustrations with school boards Brain research and learning
Assessment
Additional resources: 55(11)22 {Letters}: 55(6)4 Additional resources: 55(1) 16
Try experiential learning to educate your board: 55(8)38 Abbott, John (president, 21° Century Learning Initiative) on
Herman, Joan (associate director, National Center for Research
building a learning community founded on research in
on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at UCLA) on the
Book reviews neurology and evolutionary psychology: 55(1) 17-21
state of performance assessments: 55(11)17-22
Further reading: 55(11)22 Altered Destinies: Making Life Better for Schoolchildren in Need: Caine, Renate Nummela (executive director, Center for Research
55(10)73 in Integrated Learning/Teaching) and Geoffrey Caine
What constitutes a quality assessment: 55(11)20
The Challenge of School Change: 55(4)41 (adult learning consultant) on applying brain research to
Marzano, Robert (McREL deputy director, Aurora, Colo.) on
rethinking tests and performance tasks: 55(11) 10-12 Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to the classroom: 55(1)12-16
Rebuild America: 55(1)41 Twelve brain/mind learning principles: 55(1) 14
Sanders, William (University of Tennessee professor) on using
Common Schools, Uncommon Futures: 55(5)57 Reaction to brain research features (January 1998) Energized
value-added assessment to measure student progress:
55(11)24-27 Cruising Rules: Relationships at Sea: 55(7)41 by brain coverage; the brain and preschool learning; good
In Defense of Good Teaching: 55(11)49 additions to our vocabulary: 55(4)4; Relevancy of brain
Additional readings on value-added assessment:
55(11)27 Dewey's Laboratory School: Lessons for Today: 55(3)41 stories: 55(5)4; Another brain discoverer [Letters]: 55(5)4;
Financing Schools for High Performance: 55(9)49 A brainy resource [Letters]: 55(6)5; A 20-year flashback
One district’s use of value-added assessment: 55(11)30-32
Responding to the critics: 55(11)32 Fundamentals of School Scheduling: 55(8)56 {Letters}: 55(8)5
Stiggins, Richard (assessment consultant) on confronting the Growing Up Digitak: 55(11)49 Sousa, David (former superintendent) on ramifications of
barriers to effective assessment: 55(11)6-9 How Schools Might Be Governed and Why: 55(3)41 brain research: 55(1)22-25
Additional readings: 55(11)9 Improving Student Learning: 55(6)41 Sternberg, Robert (Yale psychology professor) on theory of
Inventing Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational Reform: intelligence for unearthing students’ talents: 55(1)26-31
What's wrong with teaching to the test?: 55(11)14-16
55(2)57 Elementary principal applies Sternberg’s theory of intelligence:
Athletics Kids and School Reform: 55(7)41 55(1)28-29
Athletic eligibility: Right or privilege?: 55(10)6-10 The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies and Practices Sylwester, Robert (author, A Celebration of Neurons) on new
The attraction of foreign-exchange athletes: 55(10)10 for the Next Era: 55(5)57 developments in cognitive science: 55(1)6-10
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What is the 21° century learning initiative? 55(1)20 Peck, Carol (superintendent) and DeAnn Spencer (research Potential educational spending trends (Federal Dateline]:
specialist) on defining purposes for school consultants: 55(2)53
Brown, Thomas A (superintendent, South Colonie, N.Y.) 55(2)17 Fortuna, Stan Jr. on comparing an M.B.A. favorably to o doctorate:
[Profile]: 55(11)51 The private sector beckons: Former superintendents describe shift 55(9)43
from public education to corporate management: 55(1)41-46
My life as a CEO of Voyager Expanded Learning: 55(2)42-43
Voyager's stable of superintendents: 55(2)45
¢ Questions to consider when seeking an outside consultant:
Career planning 55(2)26 Grohe, Barbara (superintendent, lowa City, lowa and 1998
Advice for the wannabe consultant: 55(2)36-38 Role of change agents from the outsider’s viewpoint: 55(2)8 National Superintendent of the Year Award winner) [Profile]: 55(5)59
Exciting options for my post-etirement (Guest Column): So you want to be an educational consultant? Former superintendent Guskey, Thomas (professor, University of Kentucky) on finding time
55(11)41 Joel Radin describes transition to consulting: 55(2)36 to train staff: 55(7)35-37
Hunting for a new superintendency: 55(6)32 Using university researchers for outside evaluations: 55(2)20 Guthrie, Harold D. (superintendent, Spring Branch, Texas)
Interview advice for superintendents: 55(2)49 [Profile]: 55(3)43
Johnson, Vernon (former superintendent) describes life as CEO Crawford, Steven P. (superintendent, Roff, Okla.) [Profile]:
for Voyager Expanded Learning: 55(2)42+ 55(10)75
Reaction to “Job hunting at a later age” (June 1997)
Useful leads {Letters}: 55(2)4 Curriculum H
Private lives of public leaders: A spousal perspective: 55(6)24-27 Better flexibility, tighter curriculum in trimester plan: 55(5)41 Hertz, Karl V. (see President’s Corner)
The private sector beckons: The marketability of superintendents
in private industry: 55(2)41-46 Houston, Paul D. (AASA executive director)
Spouse of former superintendent on harmful impact of The centrality of character education and the mission of public
superintendency on spouse /family: 55(6)28-30 D schools: 55(5)6-8
Delohn, Joseph P. (superintendent, Wilmington, Del.) (Profile): Navigating dangerous white water together [Executive
Character education 55(6)43 Perspective]: 55(10)69
Barber, Benjamin (political scientist, Rutgers University) on Dodson, William H. on an act of school violence one year later: No reason for sheepishness about our schools: [Executive
schools for democracy: 55(5) 10-12 55(9)42 Perspective]: 55(3)38
Bennett, William J. (former U.S. Education Secretary) on values Domenech, Daniel A. (See President's Comer) The rush toward a narrow self-interest [Executive Perspective]:
for educators: 55(5)38-40 55(1)38
Berman, Sheldon (superintendent) on empathy, ethics and Decision-making (see also Site-Based Management) Preserving public education, not public schools {Executive
service: 55(5)27-32 Flynn, Peter (superintendent)on how central office can prepare Perspective]: 55(8)53
Comes, Jim (Southern Poverty Law Center) on building community schoot-based councils to make their own decisions: School reform or reform school?: [Executive Perspective]:
versus protecting individualism: 55(5) 15-16 55(3) 14-18 55(5)53
Character Education Partnership's 11 principles of effective Also: How to respond to the naysayers: 55(3) 16 Reaction [Letters]: 55(8)4
character education in schools: 55(5)20 Murphy, John (former superintendent) and Denis Doyle
Etzioni, Amitai (director, Institute for Communitarian Policy (consultant) on measuring performance and applying Humor in school administration
Studies) on a character education inventory for schools: consequences: 55(3)24-27 {Leadership Lite]: 55(1)44; 55(2)60; 55(3)44; 55(4)44:
55(5)35-36 Patterson, Jerry (former superintendent) on harsh realities about 55(5)60; 55(6)44; 55(7)60; 55(8)60; 55(9)52:
Houston, Paul (AASA executive director) on the centrality of decentralized decision-making: 55(3) 6-12 55(10)76; 55(11)52
character education to mission of public schools: 55(56)+ Also: Resolving the issues of power and control in a decentralized Nebuchadnezzar in the land of school administration
McDonnell, Sanford N. (former CEO, McDonnell Douglas) system: 55(3) 10 [Guest Column]: 55(11)38-39
on restoring the core values of American heritage: 55(5)18 Spillane, Robert (former superintendent) and Paul Reigner School daze: The life of a rural administrator
Schaps, Eric (president, Developmental Studies Center) on breeding (community relations coordinator, Fairfax County, Va.) on [Guest Column]: 55(6)36
citizenship through community in school: 55(5)22-24 decision making in the public and private sectors: 55(3) 20-22 Whoops! Who unplugged what? [Guest Column]: 55(8)48
Reaction to character education theme issue: 55(7)4
Resources on character education: 55(5)28; 55(5)38
Class size E I
Reaction to Charles Achilles’ article on the benefits of smaller Elliott, Michael (Newsweek editor) on reconciling education's Indoor air quality
classes {Letters}: 55(1)4 naysayers in a thriving economy: 55(8)44 Monitoring renovations of school buildings for air quality
[Federal Dateline]: 55(6)39
Communications (see also Media relations) Educational values Reaction to Federal Dateline: 55(8)53
E-mail can be your friend or foe: 55(8)42-43 Appreciation of Paul Houston’s column, “Promoting the public
Responding to the thetoric of the radical right: 55(3)37 good through common schools” [Letters]: 55(3)4
Houston, Paul D. (AASA executive director) on the rush toward a
Community schools narrow self-interest [Executive Perspective]: 55(1)38 J
Building and maintaining a community school [Guest Column): Rich, Dorothy (president, Home and School Institute) on wanting Jordan, John W. (superintendent, Oxford, Miss.) [Profile]: 55(2)59
55(4)36 the best for children [Guest Column]: 55(1)35
Consulting Etzioni, Amitai (director, Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies)
Additional resources for rethinking change and reform: 55(2)35 on a character education inventory: 55(5)35-36 K
Advice for wannabe educational consultants: 55(2)38 Katz, Yvonne (superintendent, Beaverton, Ore.) on overcoming
Appreciation of Joel Radin’s piece on becoming an educational burnout and mistrust: 55(5)42
consultant (Letters): 55(5)4 Kleinsmith, Stephen L. (assistant to the superintendent, Omaha,
Consultant from Oz syndrome: Addressing problems through Neb.) [Profile]: 55(8)59
administrative dialogue: 55(2)30-34 Federal legislation (see also Indoor air quality)
Reaction to “The consultant from Oz” [Letters]: 55(5) The 105" Congress in retrospect (Federal Dateline):
Districts turn to consultants for reasons of economics, accountability 55(11)43
and expertise: 55(2)6-14 Appreciation of column on E-rate discounts [Letters]:
Free advice for using consultants: 55(2) 12 55(1)4 Lonardi, Emilie M. (assistant superintendent, West York Area
Imaginative use for consultants: 55(2)18 Coverdell bill’s voucher system undermines public schools School District, Pa.) on how fear of change and complacency
Improving schools from within: 55(2)24-28 [Federal Dateline}: 55(7)39 doomed one school’s proposed schedule: 55(3)28-31
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Leadership (see also Superintendency) Gifted quality education for every child: 55(10)68 about the size and cost of centra-office administration:
Advice to a new superintendent [Guest Column}: 55(1)33 Is grass greener across the Atlantic?: 55(9)46 55(8)26-29
Back to school for collaborative leadership [Guest Column): Let's become champions of learning: 55(8)51 Additional resources: 55(8)29
55(10)64 Six misinterpretations about administration: 55(8)27
Basing principal rotation on system needs: 55(10)61 Karl V. Hertz Heyneman, Stephen P. (educator, The World Bank) on a defense
An organization's courage starts at the top [Guest Column}: Connecting all that we are: 55(4)38 from the outside: 55(8)30-33
55(10)65 The end of a wonderful opportunity: 55(6)38 Mathews, Jay (writer, Washington Post) on breaking down
Overcoming burnout and mistrust in times of change: Keeping our eyes on the real target: 55(2)52 barriers for less-advantaged students: 55(8)34-36
55(5)42 Much to think about in the new year: 55(1)36 Reactions [Letters]: 55(11)4
Rules for rule-making in education: 55(9)38 ‘The only investment that never fails’: 55(5)52 Reconciling education’s naysayers in a thriving economy:
Two brief moments define what's important: 55(3)38 55(8)44
Leadership training Reaction to “A great squirming away from our responsibility” Rothstein, Richard (Economic Policy Institute researcher) on
Designing, implementing and assessing a [Letter]: 55(1)4 skewed comparisons of “then and now” studies of student
leadership program: 55(6)20-23 assessment: 55(8)20-24
Leadership training opportunities: 55(6)23 Principal performance evaluation Troy, Forrest (editor, The Oklahoma Observer) on the myth of our
Gil, Libia S. (superintendent) on principals evaluating peers: foiled education system: 55(8)6-10
Legal issues 55(9)28-30
Appreciation of issue on education law [Letters]: 55(3)4 Focus questions for peer groups: 55(9)29
Reaction to article on becoming familiar with education law and What do principals think of peer review?: 55(9)30
relying less on lawyer (Letters): 55(3)4, 55(2)4 Glanz, Jeffrey (researcher) on images of principals in films and R
TV sitcoms: 55(9)34-36 Rancic, Edward T. on putting a limit on boorish boards: 55(10)66
Lashway, Larry (research analyst, ERIC)on instruments for
evaluating principals: 55(9) 14-19 Reading instruction
M Getting the most from your principal assessments: Appreciation of article on Reading Recovery {Letters}: 55(1)4
Marzano, Robert (McREL deputy director, Aurora, Colo.) on rethinking 55(9)19 Reaction to Bill Honig’s piece contrasting language and phonics
tests and performance tasks: 55(11)10-12 What's available in assessment instruments: 55(9) 16 [Letters]: 55(1)4
Paige, Rod (superintendent) and centratoffice staff on Response from Bill Honig supporting his article “Reading the
McKenzie, Jamieson (former superintendent) on introducing learning performance contracts for principals: 55(9)32-33 right way” {Letters}: 55(1)4; {Letters}: 55(4)4
technologies to the classroom: 55(3)6-11 Also 10 excellent Reeves, Douglas (president, Center for Performance Assessment)
Web sites on learning technologies: 55(3) 10 on seven considerations for effectively evaluating site Reeves, Douglas (director, Center for Performance Assessment) on
administrators: 55(9) 6-12 responding to the radical right: 55(3)37
Media relations Further reading: 55(9) 12
In dealing with the press, a nose for news can help: 55(2)48 Seven policy considerations for principal appraisal: 55(9) 10-11 Rich, Dorothy (president, Home and School Institute) on wanting
Stronge, James H. (education professor) on leadership skills the best for children: 55(1)35
Middle schools in school and community: 55(9)21-26
Thef ate of middle schooling 55(7)30-33 Additional reading: 55(9)26 Riley, Richard: A staunch supporter of public education (Federal
What role for middle school sports?: 55(10)52-56 Comparing leader attributes: 55(9)22 Dateline]: 55(9)47
Available resources: 55(10)56 Comparing leadership standards: 55(9)24
Roesner, Calvin A. on comic book qualities for the next
Murphy, John A. (former superintendent) on measuring Private education millennium: 55(10)67
performance and applying consequences: 55(3)24-27 A sporting chance for home-schoolers?: 55(10) 18-22
Reaction to Krista Ramsey's “The private sector beckons” Rubin, Hank on collaborative leadership: 55(10)64
[Letters]: 55(5)4
Retention vs. social promotion
Professional development Additional reading: 55(7)16
Peck, Carol (superintendent) onn d defining purposes for school Bonding through books: Former superintendent Terry Furin on Darling-Hammond, Linda (executive director, National Center for
consultants to get results: 55(2 17-22 using books to build a shared philosophy: 55(6) 16-18 Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching) on alternatives
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Reactions [Letters]: 55(9)4 to grade retention: 55(7) 18-21
Penn, Clarence P. (superintendent, Surry County, Va.) Books that made a difference: Eight former superintendents DeVries, Karen E. and Carl A. Cohn (superintendent) on wrestling
[Profile]: 55(9)51 comment on books that shaped their approaches to with retention: 55(7)24
leadership: 55(6)6-13 Long Beach, Calif.’s promotion and retention policy: 55(7)25
Pentkowski, Raymond J. (superintendent) on the priorities of Cortines, Ramon on Waiting for a Miracle: 55(6)6 Long Beach, Calif., principal on the benefits of retention:
teaching [Guest Column]: 55(7)37 Gil, Libia on Fligohft th e Buffalo: 55(6)11 55(7)28
Hicks, Thomas on Experience and Education: 55(6)8 Merits of summer schooling: 55(7)29
Performance evaluation Irwin, Pi on The Little Prince: 55(6)9 Politics of retention: 55(7)9
(see also Principal performance evaluation) McGarry, Thomas on Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 55(6)7 Revival of summer school: 55(7) 11 -
Client-based system for superintendent evaluation: 55(5)44-45 Smith, Roland on various titles: 55(6)13 Second-chance program for failing 8th graders: 55(7)26
Reaction to “Doubting client evaluation” using 360-degree Wilhoyte, Cheryl on Leadership Without Easy Schools adopt stricter promotion guidelines: 55(7) 6-12
feedback [Letters]: 55(2)4 Answers. 55(6)10 Natriello, Gary (professor, Teachers College, Columbia University)
Ordering these books: 55(6) 14 on the faults of retention: 55(7) 14-17
Powell, Colin L. (retired Army general and chair of America’s © Reaction [Letters]: 55(8)5; 55(9)4-5
Promise) on nurturing needy youth through America’s promise Edwards, Mark (superintendent) on turbo-charging professional Rural schools
[Guest Column}: 55(6)34 development: 55(11)34-36 School daze: A humorous look at the life of a rural administrator:
Guskey, Thomas on making time to train your staff: 55(6)36
Personnel management 55(7)35-36
Marrying merit pay to the strategic plan: 55(10)62 Why an M.B.A. compares favorably to a doctorate: 55(94)3
Performance incentives can spark greater productivity: 55(3)32
Public education (see also Paul Houston)
President’s Corner Berliner, David C. and Bruce J. Biddle (authors of Sanders, William (University of Tennessee professor) on using
Daniel A. Domenech The Manufactured Crisis) on the lamentable alliance between value-added assessment to measure student progress:
An immigrant fulfilling o dream: 55(7)38 the media and school critics: 55(8) 12-18 55(11)24-27
Expanding your vision through technology: 55(11)42 Educational Research Service report challenges misperceptions Additional readings on value-added assessment: 55(11)27
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INDEX 1998
Spillane, Robert R. (former superintendent) on decision making Stiggins, Richard (assessment consultant) on confronting the Theriot, Jude W. (superintendent, Lake Charles, La.) [Profile]
in the public and private sectors: 55(3)20-22 barriers to effective assessment: 55(11)6-9 55(4)43
Additional reading: 55(11)9
School board-superintendent relations Thorne, Brent M. (superintendent, Richfield, Utah) [Profile]:
(see also Board relations) Strategic planning: Mapping a district’s past can influence its future: 55(1)43
Client-based system for superintendent evaluations: 55(4)34
55(5)44 Toy, Steve on his fight against depression [Guest Column]
Learning styles may answer meddlesome school board members: Student discipline (see also School safety) 55(8)46
55(5)46 Reducing out-of-school suspensions through alternate
Overcoming burnout and mistrust: 55(5)42 placements: 55(1)32 Troy, Frosty on the myth of our foiled education system: 55(8)6-10
Preparing schoo-based councils to make their own decisions:
55(3)14 Superintendency
School and community collaborations: 55(6)33 (see also School board /superintendent relations)
Try experimental learning to educate your board: Advice to a new superintendent [Guest Column}: 55(1)33 V
55(8)38 Feedback [Letters]: 5(4)4, 55(5)4 Vouchers (see also Federal legislation)
Why I’m giving up on school boards [Guest Column]: Attending to one’s inner needs: 55(9)39 The Coverdell bill’s voucher system undermines public schools
55(2)50 Exciting options for my postetirement [Guest Column]: [Federal Dateline]: 55(7)39
Working with school boards: 55(7)34 55(11)41 Reaction to “The test of sound public policy” {Federal
Getting at the roots of superintendent burnout [Guest Column]: Dateline]: 55(2)4
School-community partnerships 55(5)48-49
Communities In Schools coordinator on sustaining school Reactions [Letters]: 55(9)5
community commitments: 55(6)33 In search of comic book qualities for the next millennium
[Guest Column]: 55(10)67 Ww
School facilities Minimizing the negative effects of the superintendent's job Web sites
Creating schools at work sites: 55(10)60 fesponsibilities on spouses /family: 55(6)28 Launching a district Web site: 55(4)22
Reactions [Letters]: 55(8)4; 55(10)4 Uses and issues for school district Web sites: 55(4)20-26
School finance My fight against depression: A former superintendent's personal What students publish on the Web?: 55(4)27-29
Technology bond referendum hinges on salesmanship: reflection: 55(8)46 Journalism Education Association’s stance on on-line
55(1)34 My life as CEO: Ex-superintendent Vernon Johnson on his new publishing: 55(4)28
corporate position: 55(2)42
School reform Nebuchadnezzar in the land of school administration (Guest Wellness
Houston, Paul D. (AASA executive director) on the issue of Column]: 55(11)38-39 Attending to one’s inner needs: 55(9)39
school reform versus school transformation {Executive Private lives of public leaders: A spousal perspective: Nebuchadnezzar in the land of school administration
Perspective]: 55(5)53 55(6)24-27 [Guest Column]: 55(11)38-39
Lonardi, Emilie (assistant superintendent) on why Reactions (Letters): 55(8)4
block scheduling failed in her former district: Reaction to Robert Stabile’s “Advice to a new superintendent”
55(3)28-31 {Letters}: 55(3)4
Reaction to “Anatomy of a failed reform”: 55(7)4 Response to letter criticizing coverage of superintendent evaluation
What do you say to naysayers?: 55(3)16 [Letters]: 55(2)4
Where’s the accountability in education reform? School daze: The life of o rural administrator [Guest Column):
[Guest Column]: 55(5)50 55(6)36
Reactions [Letters]: 55(10)4
School safety A superintendent's view from abroad {Guest Column]: 55(6)35
Administration's role in school emergencies and threats [Letters]: Support roles of superintendents in schoo-based change:
55(3)4 55(11)37
Aftermath of school violence one year later (Guest Column]: Systemic decision making (Guest Column]: 55(3)34-35
55(9)42 Whoops! Who unplugged what? [Guest Column]: 55(8)48
A phone line picture system tightens security: 55(9)40
Safe school plans begin with information gathering:
55(8)40
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School schedules Technology
Better flexibility, tighter curriculum in trimester plan: E-mail can be your friend or foe: 55(84) 2
Issue date forc irculation data below: October 1998
55(5)41 Evaluating technology’s impact: The four major uses of computer
The case for schools that don’t close [Guest Column]: technology in schools: 55(4) 12-18
55(3)36 Reaction to “Evaluating technology's impact” [Letters]:
Lonardi, Emilie (assistant superintendent) on why block 55(7)4
scheduling failed in her former district: 55(3)28-31 Launching a district Web site: 55(4)22
The rush toward technology [Federal Dateline}:
Site-based management (see also Decision making) 55(4)39
Preparing schoot-based councils to make their own decisions: McKenzie, Jamieson (former superintendent) on introducing
55(3) 14-18 learning technologies to the classroom: 55(4) 6-10
Resolving the issues of power and control in a decentralized 10 Web sites on learning technologies: 55(4) 10
system: 55(31) 0 Rubrics to gauge your staff’s computer literacy: 55(4) 16
Rules for rule-making in education: 55(9)38 Technology bond referendum hinges on salesmanship:
Site-based councils: Engines ... or brakes?: 55(1)34
55(3)36 To lease or not to lease: 55(4)30-32
Uses and issues for school district Web sites: 55(4) 20-26
Standards What students publish on the Web: 55(4)27-29 be subject to crimina
Murphy, John (former superintendent) and Denis Doyle Journalism Education Association’s stance on on-line and/or civil sanct ncluding multip|
JAYP .G OLDMAN, Editor
(education consultant) on measuring performance and publishing: 55(4)28
applying consequences: 55(3)24-27 Whoops! Who unplugged what? [Guest Column}: 55(8)48
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