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Educated guess : a school board member reflects / Howard Good.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Good, Howard, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Aims and objectives.
- United States.
- School boards--United States.
- School boards.
- Physical Description:
- x, 95 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- School board veterans and rookies alike will identify with Good's wide-ranging tales of board service. The book provides guidance to those facing common school board issues: school violence, censorship, public speaking, budget cuts, citizen complaints, internal conflicts, and the negative image that seems to dog school boards no matter what they do.
- Contents:
- Part I School Board Blues
- 1 Say What? 3
- 2 Then and Now 7
- 3 Shadow of the Gun 11
- 4 Censorsh*t 15
- 5 School Board Blues 19
- 6 Public Speaking, Private Nightmare 23
- 7 Into the Fire 29
- 8 School Board Notebook 33
- 9 School Pictures 39
- 10 Flower Power 47
- Part II Honey and Ashes
- 11 Mom's the Word 53
- 12 Honey and Ashes 57
- 13 Epitaph for an English Teacher 61
- 14 The Age of Impatience 65
- 15 The Family Plan 69
- 16 The Contempt Syndrome 73
- 17 Grammarama 77
- 18 X-thics 81
- 19 Advice to Graduates 85
- 20 Off to See the Wizard 89.
- Notes:
- "A ScarecrowEducation book."
- ISBN:
- 0810847590
- OCLC:
- 51543992
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