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Underwood, Julie – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Public funding of private K-12 schooling through vouchers continues to be a contentious issue across the U.S., even though a solid majority of Americans continues to oppose them. The voucher plans run the risk of legal challenge for how they handle the rights of students with disabilities and whether they violate state constitutional provisions…
Descriptors: Public Support, Educational Development, Educational Vouchers, Public Opinion
Urquhart, Vicki – Principal Leadership, 2012
It didn't happen overnight. It took more than 20 years of negative public perception, flat student achievement scores, and disengaged students and staff and community members, but finally, the staff and administrators of Barry Goldwater High School--a large, comprehensive, suburban public high school in Phoenix, Arizona--knew that the day had…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Diversity, Negative Attitudes, Public Schools
McCammon, Laura A.; Smigiel, Heather – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2004
The authors describe ethical issues they have encountered when teachers develop narratives about their own practice and then again when these narratives are later explored using drama techniques. Specifically, they look at the developmental process itself, both in the creation of the original narrative and the subsequent creation of a dramatic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Drama, Personal Narratives, Teachers