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July-August 2000

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IASB Publications
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• Ask the staff: Get the straight scoop

• Decade of the 1990s: The Sampson years by Gerald R. Glaub
  Wayne Sampson is retiring after more than ten years as IASB’s executive director. It’s been an expansive, progressive decade for the Association.

• Critical threats to America’s children
  "Ten Critical Threats to America’s Children: Warning Signs for the Next Millennium" is a study released by a coalition of organizations working for the benefit of children, including the National School Boards Association.

• Who is watching out for the children? by Alex Kotlowitz
  The juvenile justice system is becoming adversarial and harsh — almost indistinguishable from the adult justice system.

• Politics, elections and education by Chris Pipho
  Education will be the focus of much of this year’s electioneering, the author says.

• Bush, Gore differ on education
  There are significant differences between the educational philosophies of the two major contenders for the presidency.

• Hot issues in education by William J. Banach
  A leading figure in school communications and information management examines some issues that educators need to think about.

• Rethink high school, leaders urge
  Participants in a U.S. Education Department conference on "Reinventing High School" suggested some major changes in the way high schools are organized and the way students are taught.

• Million moms march by Jill Ward
  On Mother’s Day, hundreds of thousands of mothers congregated in the nation’s capital to call for sensible gun legislation to make communities safer.