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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.

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  		• Aftermath
    Authored By: Lawrence Hardy, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281361
    2011 was barely half over when NOAA declared it one of the most extreme weather years on record. By June, the nation already had witnessed record snowfall in the Northeast, de...
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Features

  		• High-stakes Cheating
    Authored By: Naomi Dillon, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281362
    A report commissioned by the Georgia Governor’s Office of Special Investigators provided painstaking detail of what many had long suspected: Atlanta Public Schools testing gains...
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  		• How Can School Leaders Lessen the Likelihood of Cheating?
    Authored By: Charles K. Trainor, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281363
    What can motivate an adult to cheat? With increased accountability, some educators cheat to save their jobs or prevent their school from being labeled a poor performer. In...
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  		• Excellence for All
    Authored By: Arthur L. Coleman, Francisco M. Negron Jr., and Katherine E. Lipper, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281365
    Education in the U.S. is at an important crossroads. Amplifying our collective national challenge is a demographic reality...
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  		• Erasing the Opportunity Gap
    Authored By: Edwin C. Darden, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281367
    School board members do not fully recognize the power they wield to give kids in poverty a better change to achieve. The source of their strength is a purposeful change in po...
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  		• Business Class
    Authored By: Eugene Judson, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281368
    Lots of resources are available to help you make decisions. One popular source is the business world. Perhaps the best lesson that school boards can glean from business is how ...
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Departments

  		• December 2011 School Board News
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281369
    This month: “On the Hill” sees significant steps ahead in the reauthorization of ESEA. “NSBA Roundup” covers the Pre-K Coalition and announces the CUBE award winner. “Talk Ab...
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  		• Early Childhood Decisions
    Authored By: Jim Hull, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281370
    Students do best if their early childhood education experience consisted of pre-k along with full-day kindergarten. But what if your district can’t offer both? A recent report by NS...
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  		• Emergency Plan Inclusion
    Authored By: Shamus P. O'Meara and M. Annie Mullin, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281371
    School districts are always developing and refining emergency management plans for their general student population. However, very few plans include pr...
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  		• Worth a Thousand Words
    Authored By: Nora Carr, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281372
    Once denigrated as journalism’s version of light beer, infographics are now de rigueur, especially for interactive news outlets. Done well, these colorful and clever variations on ...
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  		• Choosing Choice
    Authored By: Douglas B. Reeves, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281373
    Parents love choices. Proliferating brands, color palettes, communication media, and electronic options are only a few of the manifestations of our collective desire to be ...
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  		• The Last Word December 2011
    Authored By: Anne L. Bryant, Date Published: 11/30/2011, Product#: 281374
    When we standardize our instructional programs, our children lose their discoveries. We risk losing excellence and creativity and effective problem-solving. Instead, let’s bui...
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  		• December 2011 Adviser
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 12/1/2011, Product#: 281384
    What would you do if … your superintendent wanted to install metal detectors?...
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