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School Board Journal
July August 1999

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Here is a Table of Contents for the July-August 1999 issue of Illinois School Board Journal. Highlighted articles are available here in full-text form. For other articles get in touch with:

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

• Parent-school involvement takes on urgent meaning, by Jessica C. Billings
  Recent outbursts of violence among children have given new meaning to the concept of parent involvement – and new urgency to the question of how society and schools can help parents.

• Reflections on leadership: Leading from inside, by Georgiann McKenna
  The best leaders lead from the inside – from their own deepest values and understanding.

• Home schooling
  Some parents choose to keep their children out of the public schools altogether. Here are some of the facts about home schooling and its possible impact on children.

• Too much testing, ETS study charges
  The Educational Testing Service – of all groups – charges that too much testing is going on in schools and too much of it is the wrong kind.

• Recipes for success, by Mark F. Goldberg
  Dorothy Rich was a pioneer in devising ways parents can help their children learn. Now her MegaSkills program offers "recipes" for parents to use with their children.

• Character counts, by Gary M. Smit
  The Character Counts! program helps Lombard Elementary District 44 and Glenbard East High School to teach core ethical values and character to their students.

• You'd better watch out! Silver Bullet Academy is coming to town, by William J. Banach
  The school probably won't be any better than yours, but its superior planning and marketing could capture the constituency that keeps your public school in business.