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Teachers With Passion: Teaching In A Distressed Educational Environment, Professor Ben C Osisioma

Prof Ben Chuka Osisioma

Passion is great enthusiasm, very strong emotion, a willingness to sacrifice. Men and women with passion outpace themselves as they go beyond mere talent, to leave their impact on society. Nigerian education needs teachers with passion – men and women with fire in their bones, impatient for lasting and enduring results. Such extra-ordinary pedagogues are people who will give themselves as ministers and missionaries in the temple of education.

An Analysis Of Estimated Financial Savings From School District Consolidation, De-Regulation, And De-Politicization Of Public Schools In One Congressional District, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

No abstract provided.

Will Your School Corporation’S Debt Exceed Capacity?, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

Criteria for communities to use to assess whether the community can afford a school bond issue are discussed.

Yes, Indy Schools Are Broken, But They’Re Not The Only Ones, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

A discussion of school governance in Indianapolis Public Schools and in school districts throughout Indiana.

The Politicians Still Don’T Get It: The Corruption Of Public Education, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

Indiana politicians and school reform are discussed.

An Historical Comparison And Analysis Of School Laws Enacted By The Indiana General Assembly During Four Selected Decades (2007)., Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

This was a study of four selected decades to determine if the Indiana General Assembly was increasing the amount of school statutes in Indiana.

Freedom Schools: A Third Dimension To The Upcoming Debate Over The Consolidation Of Indiana Government Schools, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

No abstract provided.

The Bright: Government Schools, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

A discussion of reforming public school governance systems in Indiana.

Theories In Support Of Teacher And Principal Empowerment As Proposed By The Freedom School Model Of School Governance, Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

A study of the theories of teacher empowerment and a discussion of the freedom model of school governance that empowers teachers and principals.

Shu's Dr. Jacqueline Kelleher Appointed To Reconstituted Bridgeport Board Of, Jacqueline Kelleher

Jacqueline Kelleher

Dr. Kelleher was named to the board in early August 2011 by Acting State Commissioner of Education George A. Coleman.

Dr. Kelleher’s to-do list for her participation on the Bridgeport board is long, but she points to instituting and advising improved school leadership, strategic planning, accreditation, fundraising and advocacy as among those of primary importance. It’s not just about test scores for her, but rather building a good environment for the education of Bridgeport’s students, and doing so as cost-effectively as possible

Family And Community Engagement In Charter Schools, Brian Beabout, Lindsey Jakiel

Brian R. Beabout

No abstract provided.

Collective Choice, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

This short nontechnical article reviews the Arrow Impossibility Theorem and its implications for rational democratic decisionmaking. In the 1950s, economist Kenneth J. Arrow proved that no method for producing a unique social choice involving at least three choices and three actors could satisfy four seemingly obvious constraints that are practically constitutive of democratic decisionmaking. Any such method must violate such a constraint and risks leading to disturbingly irrational results such and Condorcet cycling. I explain the theorem in plain, nonmathematical language, and discuss the history, range, and prospects of avoiding what seems like a fundamental theoretical challenge to the possibility …

Family And Community Engagement In Charter Schools, Brian R. Beabout, Lindsey B. Jakiel

Lindsey B. Jakiel

No abstract provided.

Portfolio Management Districts And Rebuilding Inequality, Brian R. Beabout

Brian R. Beabout

Despite over fifty years of near-constant educational reform movements in the USA, most attempts at improving outcomes in urban public schools have meet with predictable failure (Sarason, 1990). The recently coined term Portfolio Management Models (Bulkley, Henig & Levin, 2010) describes a reform to citywide governance in which the district serves as a coordinator of public education services, rather than the single provider of these services. Cities such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans are noted for having schools run by a variety of groups including national and local charter operators, magnets and neighborhood schools run by the …