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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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On The Cover

  		• State of the Unions
    Authored By: Del Stover, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261740
    When striking teachers display a giant inflatable rat outside a school—and name their new mascot after the superintendent—it's clear that relations between school leaders and the ...
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  		• The Merit Scale
    Authored By: Naomi Dillon, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261737
    After a series of marked failures in the 1980's, salary reform efforts in America's school districts are experiencing a resurgence. Increasing numbers of school districts and s...
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  		• Hammer it Out
    Authored By: Steven Klein, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261733
    Negotiating a new teachers' contract can be daunting. Whether your board is planning to subcontract or lead its own negotiations, you will be up against a seasoned union veteran...
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Features

  		• Rescuing Distressed Schools
    Authored By: Eugene Judson, Phyllis Schwartz, Kimberly Allen, and Tommie Miel, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261729
    NCLB has affected state departments of education as much as any other type of institution. Looming in the legislation was the ...
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  		• Time to Heal
    Authored By: Glenn Cook, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261727
    An underground natural gas explosion at the London School, 125 miles southeast of Dallas, killed more than 300 students, staff, and townspeople on March 18, 1937. How did such a tr...
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  		• Secrets of Board Success
    Authored By: Lynn Hamilton, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261725
    Ask yourself, "Do I enjoy being on the school board?" If the answer is "no," you need to make a change. Modify how you handle the job or remove yourself from the board. Life is ...
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Departments

  		• Bargaining: It's in Your Best Interest
    Authored By: Susan Black, Date Published: 3/17/2008, Product#: 261690
    What's the difference between traditional and interest-based bargaining? Traditional bargaining is power-based; each side aims to win. Interest-based bargaining encourages the pa...
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  		• Policy, the Law, and You
    Authored By: Edwin C. Darden, Date Published: 3/17/2008, Product#: 261694
    From a legal standpoint, school boards exist for one reason: to govern K-12 schools by exercising their power as a policymaking body. A good policy can save a district's hide...
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  		• Setting the Record Straight
    Authored By: Nora Carr, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261711
    Knowing when—and how—to respond to unfair, untrue, or derogatory public attacks is often difficult for school districts. Struggling to create nonpartisan unity in a highly charged a...
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  		• The Case for Wi-Fi Security
    Authored By: Joe Dysart, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261713
    While scores of K-12 campuses are reaping the conveniences of Wi-Fi connectivity in which entire schools and sometimes entire districts log onto a computer network wirelessly, such...
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  		• The Board Member's ROI
    Authored By: Doug Eadie, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261715
    As a most likely unpaid volunteer who dedicates considerable time and energy to your school board's governing work, you have every right think about your return on investment (ROI...
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  		• The Cost of Comprehensive
    Authored By: Charles K.Chaflin, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261719
    We have been talking reform and innovation in high schools for years. However, high school reform and high school design are not always wedded. As a result, the decades-old ...
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  		• Mortgaging the Future
    Authored By: Charles K. Trainor, Date Published: 3/18/2008, Product#: 261717
    August 2007 marked the beginning of the seemingly never-ending saga of the sub-prime mortgage debacle. What went wrong with the housing market? And what does all of this ha...
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