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Educational Administration and Supervision

2014

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Changing Times In School Law - Introduction, Jeanne L. Surface, David Stader, Anthony Armenta Apr 2014

Changing Times In School Law - Introduction, Jeanne L. Surface, David Stader, Anthony Armenta

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As 2012 came to a close, the re-election of President Obama assures the continuation of state waivers to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the use of student growth modeling to make teacher and administrator employment decisions, and more accountability measures for PK-12 public schools and public and private institutions of higher education. The inexplicable school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, once again opened the political discussion about school safety. The reauthorization of Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEIA) looms on the horizon. The U.S. Supreme Court has once again ventured into the divisive affirmative …


Introduction To Rural Educational Leadership, Jeanne L. Surface Jan 2014

Introduction To Rural Educational Leadership, Jeanne L. Surface

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Without going too deep into theoretical perspectives regarding social and organizational change (as with, say, Hegel’s dialectic), it can fairly be argued that change occurs when the center doesn’t hold, or said another way, when the status quo no longer serves most people. It is at that point that different ideas take root and begin to direct the process of change. And where do the different ideas come from? Wendell Berry (1987) argued that they come from the periphery, which in the context of the 21st century, is the countryside.