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Jacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2015
This article features an interview with Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings. In this interview, Hastings relates that he told the "Wall Street Journal" in 2008 that he started looking at education--trying to figure out why our education is lagging when our technology is increasing at great rates and there's great innovation in so many other areas…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Charter Schools
Reddick, Thomas L.; Peach, Larry E. – Tennessee Education, 1983
Explains Tennessee's 1978 Community Schools Act and its implications for state school boards. Suggests ways for community educators to avoid legal problems related to governance, medical considerations, buildings and grounds, field trips and excursions, volunteers, and fiscal management. (SB)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Education, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Glenn, Charles L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Reaction of educators to court decision in "Mozert v. Hawkins County" should be tempered with common sense and flexibility. In his research on basal readers and textbooks, Paul Vitz found a distorted presentation of family life, neglect of the role of religion in contemporary American life, and neglect of patriotism, business, labor, and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Content Analysis, Court Litigation, Cultural Influences
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Lorence, Jordan – Communication Education, 1987
The lawyer representing "Concerned Women for America" discusses the real issues in the Tennessee Textbook Case, as opposed to the apparent issues. (NKA)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Board of Education Role, Censorship, Civil Liberties
Berrian, Albert H., Ed.; Bonas, John E., Ed. – 1981
Presentations at a seminar on systemwide tracking that grew out of efforts to promote implementation of South Carolina's desegregation plan are included. Two subjects were the focus: retention and the use of monitored developmental programs as a means of retention and of safeguarding quality. Essays include "Systemwide Student Tracking"…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Desegregation, College Freshmen, Desegregation Methods
Hackler, George, Ed. – The New Campus, 1981
Eleven articles on professional continuing education are presented. Titles and authors are as follows: "Teacher Perceptions of Roles of University Instructors" (Alvin M. Kilgore, L. James Walter, Charles Moore); "Non-Traditional Education and Institutional Reform" (Willis D. Moreland); "Basic Bifurcation in Adult Education…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Students, Boards of Education, Course Evaluation