Author: jack_mckay@csd49.org

Articles for the April 20, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Orwellian Educational Change under Obama: Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures by Paul L. Thomas
3. Teacher Unions, Charter Schools, and the Public/Private Distinction in Education Law and Policy by Benjamin Michael Superfine
4. Study links later middle, high school start times to better student achievement by Naaz Modan
5. How a Cheerleader’s Snapchat Profanity Could Shape the Limits of Students’ Free Speech by Mark Walsh
6. The Repressive Politics of Emotional Intelligence: by Merve Emre
7. 5 Ways to Write Better by Jeff Hayden
8. 11 Powerful Reasons for Peer Coaching by Brenda Steinberg
9. The 6 Fundamental Skills Every Leader Should Practice
10. Are You Clear? How to Be a Concise and Compelling Speaker by Gary Genard
11. The Surprising Science of Meetings by Steven G. Rogelberg
12. Meeting Quality Assessment Tool —Calculation of a Wasted Meeting Time Index Instructions by Steven G. Rogelberg
13. The Role of Assistant Principals: Evidence and Insights for Advancing School Leadership by Ellen Goldring
14. We All Pay for Public Services and Public Goods, for Our Common Benefit by Diane Ravitch
15. Stop the college sports ‘arms race’ by Tom McMillen
16. Does Birth Order Really Determine Personality? Here’s What the Research Says by Lynn Berger

Articles for the April 13, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Grading by States on the NPE site.
3. The Perils of Authentic Leadership Theory by Katja Einola
4. Linking Student Outcomes to School Administrator Discretion in the Implementation of Teacher Observations by Seth B. Hunter
5. A Few Thoughts about Classroom Technology Then and Now by Larry Cuban
6. Managing a Chronic Complainer by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
7. 7 Step to Persuade by Yoora Park
8. Leadership Tenacity and Public-School Superintendents by Barbara A. Klocko
9. Why I fight to save public schools by Karen Francisco
10. An American Imperative by the AASA National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education
11. 10 Reasons to Use the Telephone Rather than Email by Sam Rainer
12. Time to Rethink Standardized Testing by Yong Zhao
13. 3 Ways to Help Your Team Recover from Disruption by Sayra Cristancho
14. Harnessing the Science of Persuasion (PPT) by Robert B. Cialdini
15. The Weekly HML Post Index for 2021 (January through April)

Articles for the April 6, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Want to Raise Successful Kids? Science Says Make Sure They’re Doing This Right Now by Bill Murphy
3. Prevailing Myth Tying Student Test Scores to Teacher Performance by David Berliner
4. Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost by Shibeal O’Flon
5. Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On? by Daniel Goleman
6. The Beginning on Public Education by Jack Jennings
7. Science Reveals a Brutal Truth About Pursuing Certain Goals That Most People Realize Too Late by Jeff Haden
8. 7 Deadly Sins of Nonverbal Communication by Gary Genard
9. Why Teaching to the Test is Educational Malpractice by Steve Singer
10. Neoliberal Policies and Their Effects on Teaching and Learning by Danielle Ligocki (pdf download)
11. Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools by Jeff Bryant
12. Charter schools – the obsession and deception by Sen. Mike Romano
13. The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
14. How to Overcome Red Flags on Your Resume by Patricia Carl
15. Remote Workers Need Small Talk, Too by Jessica R. Methot

Articles for the January 19, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Register for the 2021 Annual Meeting. (No Charge)
3. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
4. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary
5. The 1 Brutal Question That Will Make Any Leader Instantly More Effective by Jessica Stillman
6. School Choice Lawsuit Surge Pushes Possible High Court Fight by Lisa Rathke
7. School enrollment decline threatens lasting funding damage for districts by Naaz Modan
8. Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education by Justin Reich
9. Managing the Unintended Consequences of Your Innovations by Nitin Nohria
10. Keeping the Good Stuff – Strategies for Translating Virtual Instruction into Buildings by Miriam Plotinsky
11. Rural Schools Have Battled Bad Internet, Low Attendance and Academic Decline on the 74 site
12. What Biden’s ‘American Rescue Plan’ Would Do for Schools and Students, in One Chart by Andrew Ujifusa
13. You’re Never Going to Be “Caught Up” at Work. Stop Feeling Guilty About It by Art Markman
14. 7 daily productivity hacks to help you work smarter in 2021 by Doug Aamoth
15. City Schools and the American Dream: The Enduring Promise of Public Education by  Pedro A. Noguera
16. Why Did We Create Public Schools?: A Short History of Education on Youtube

Articles for the March 30, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Safeguarding Rights, Minimizing Exposure by Nathan Essex
3. 10 important Supreme Court cases about education by Jonathan Stahl
4. Introducing educators to the law by Robert Kim
5. The for-profit charter school industry is completely out of control by Jeff Bryant
6. America’s inescapable crisis: Student homelessness by Joseph Bishop
7. Teacher Turnover in High-Poverty Schools: What We Know and Can Do by Nicole S. Simon
8. The Greatest Thing About My School Is … on the Education World site
9. The Secret of Adaptable Organizations Is Trust by Joerg Esser
10. Are You Actually Going to Get Fired? by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
11. If You Say Yes to These 7 Questions, You’re a Much Better Leader Than You Think by Jeff Haden
12. The 11 extremely common grammar mistakes that make people cringe by Kathy and Ross Petras
13. Why We Still Need Public Schools Public Education for the Common Good by Jack Jenning
14. Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling by Henry A. Giroux
15. Cartoon of the Week
16. Jack’s Recent Read
17. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents