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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

  		• The Value of Training
    Authored By: Naomi Dillon, Date Published: 6/17/2010, Product#: 276301
    Guiding and leading change requires board members to be aware of educational innovations, best practices, and breakthroughs occurring in other districts and settings – knowledge ...
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  		• Grow Your Own
    Authored By: Del Stover, Date Published: 6/17/2010, Product#: 276302
    Why don’t more boards take a proactive approach to succession issues? School boards can develop a pool of future candidates – without anointing a specific individual – and positive...
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Features

  		• Newsmaker: Sara Brown Wessling
    Authored By: Lawrence Hardy, Date Published: 6/17/2010, Product#: 276303
    In an age of standardized testing and calls for ever-increasing accountability, Iowa teacher Sarah Brown Wessling runs a classroom where self-discovery and forming one’s own id...
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  		• A Moment to Ponder
    Authored By: Chuck Waggoner, Date Published: 6/17/2010, Product#: 276304
    Have boards that open with a prayer given any thought and consideration to the fact that their actions send a clear message of favoring one religious viewpoint over another? Do...
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  		• Let's List Again
    Authored By: Lawrence Hardy, Date Published: 6/17/2010, Product#: 276305
    We like lists. You like lists. We’re listing again like we did last summer. Welcome to our second annual roundup of lists, the feature that gives you important news you can use...
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  		• The Right (Temporary) Fit
    Authored By: David Gee, Jan Hammond, and Ann Myers, Date Published: 6/17/2010, Product#: 276306
    The rush to hurry up and find an interim is an all-too-familiar scenario. The list of quality interim superintendents is becoming a premium. As the super...
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Departments

  		• July 2010 Up Front
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 6/18/2010, Product#: 276313
    Up Front this month: On the Hill ponders whether ESEA will be reauthorized this year; “Talk About It” discusses school choice, Breathalizers at proms, and all-male schools for...
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  		• July 2010 Your Turn
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 6/18/2010, Product#: 276308
    This month: You Say: "Stormy weather for districts." We Ask, "What do you think of Race to the Top?" ...
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  		• It's Never Too Late
    Authored By: Susan Black, Date Published: 6/18/2010, Product#: 276307
    Children who are slow to catch on to reading typically have “slow shutter speeds.” Sounds and words fly by too quickly, leaving the children stranded. Neuroscientists say these ch...
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  		• Turn on a Dime
    Authored By: Edwin C. Darden, Date Published: 6/18/2010, Product#: 276309
    The big yellow school buses that move millions of students to and from school each day provide a valuable service. And yet, superintendents and school board members are secret...
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  		• Talking About Change
    Authored By: Doug Eadie, Date Published: 6/18/2010, Product#: 276311
    A relatively new approach to leading and managing change, the “Strategic Change Portfolio” process, involves: identifying your district’s major issues; selecting the issues that me...
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  		• Focusing on the Essentials
    Authored By: Douglas B. Reeves, Date Published: 6/18/2010, Product#: 276310
    Now, more than ever, leaders must focus on the essentials, the core strategies that have the greatest impact on student learning and educational equity. Abundant evidence su...
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  		• Bonds and Derivatives
    Authored By: Charles K. Trainor, Date Published: 6/18/2010, Product#: 276312
    Anticipating an expensive project in the future, districts often accrue financial reserves, but preplanning is not always possible when a boiler fails or a school needs eme...
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  		• July 2010 Adviser
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 6/18/2010, Product#: 276315
    What would you do if … your district wanted to rent facilities to the public? ...
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