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Government & Politics OVERVIEW       ------------------------------------------ Schools Shape the Nation       And Citizens Are Supposed to Shape the Schools Do Marxists Influence Our Schools?       5 Examples of Not-Real-American Features Imply 'Yes' Why Educators Don't Govern Well       The Factors That Prevent Good Leadership From Emerging SCHOOL BOARDS       ------------------------------------------ Traits of Good School Boards       What Educators, Parents and Taxpayers Want to See School Board Candidate Questions       Cut Through the Election PR and 'Spin' to Find Out Who'd Really Be Best For Kids Book Review: 'The Essential School Board Book'       Studying Whether This is the Job For You, and How to Do It Well STATE GOVERNANCE       ------------------------------------------ State Schools Chiefs: Elected, Appointed, Or Not Needed At All?       Constant Tension Between Local Control and National and State Governance FEDERAL GOVERNANCE       ------------------------------------------ Goals 2000 = Outcome-Based Education = No Child Left Behind       How Governmental Standardization Has Been Achieved Since the 1990s STANDARDS-BASED ED       ------------------------------------------ How Our Schools Got So Standardized       Standards? Benchmarks? Proficiencies? Where'd It All Come From? Did School Restructuring of the 1990s Hurt or Help?       One Thing is Clear: It Sure Made Schools Cost a Lot More UNION POLITICS       ------------------------------------------ Union Political Spending       Eye-Popping Amounts That Appear Much More Political Than Educational WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT       ------------------------------------------ Education-Workforce Links       A Brief History of School-to-Work ACCOUNTABILITY       ------------------------------------------ What Is Accountability?       A Spokane Writer/Researcher Defines It, Inside and Outside School Government PUBLIC POLICY       ------------------------------------------ Time to Stop Subsidizing 'Mediocre Monopolies'?       Well, Yeah, Schools Are Monopolies. But Are They Mediocre? How Liberal Economic Philosophy Has Wrecked Education       The Ideas That Drive the Actions Are the Hands on the Wheel Is the Nation Still At Risk?       Earth-Shaking Report of the 1980s Might Have Been Overblown . . . or Maybe Not SUCCESS STORIES       ------------------------------------------ New Orleans: 'Diverse Providers Strategy'       Signaling the End of the Top-Down, Command-and-Control School Governance Structure?

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