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School Board Journal
November/December 1997

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IASB Publications
2921 Baker Drive
Springfield 62703
217/528-9688, extension 1131

• Let's hear it for board members/From the president's desk/JAY TOVIAN

• Gus and the trash bags/From the boiler room/RICHARD W. SMELTER

• Charter schools aren't catching on--Where is Mrs. O'Leary's cow?/On the stump/PETER S. WEBER

• Right to read equals right to succeed/StateSide/JOSEPH A. SPAGNOLO

• Learning styles can help you communicate/BARBARA K. GIVEN--If you have a hard time "getting through" to people, some attention to different learning styles might help you get your point across.

• Where are the charter schools?/DEBI S. EDMUND--During the first year and a half of the charter school law, only eight schools were opened in Illinois. In December, legislators changed the law to make it easier for charters.

• Industry whims subjugate student needs/JONATHAN KOZOL--Is the influence of corporate interests damaging children? Jonathan Kozol thinks so.

• There's more to a school than test scores/JANITA POE--Test scores at DuSable High School in Chicago are low. But does that mean DuSable is a bad school?

• Schools and business: The pendulum swings/JESSICA C. BILLINGS--For the past decade and a half, schools have been looking to corporate America for models and standards. Inevitably, the pendulum has started to swing in the other direction, and critics are wondering if that influence has been healthy.

• Keeping the saw sharp /JOHN CASSEL, ANGELA PEIFER, JOHN ALLEN--The seventh and last in a series of articles based on Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.