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School Board Journal
September-October 1999

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Here is a Table of Contents for the September-October 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
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Springfield 62703
217/528-9688, extension 1131

• ECS task force studies governance by Todd Ziebarth
  In a special article for the Journal, a policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States reports on the preliminary findings of a task force studying school governance.
• School governance proposals misguided by Peter S. Weber
  IASB's deputy executive director for advocacy analyzes the draft proposals of the ECS task force - and explains why they aren't improvements at all.
• Quality boards, quality education by John J. Cassel
  Your school board can make a positive contribution to quality education by making sure you are answering the right questions and by honoring diversity on the board.
• School boards govern best by Angie Peifer
  School reformers have yet to find a better way to govern schools than by elected boards of education. But the studies challenge school boards to make sure they are doing the work they are elected to do.
• Raising healthy teenagers by Judith Corvin-Blackburn
  Nationwide, the spotlight is on teenagers - what they need, how they can be guided - and why they sometimes turn violent. A psychotherapist reports on what human development theory has to say about this difficult age.
• Teenage violence by Connie Leinen
  Are teenagers getting more violent - or less violent - than they used to be? You can find numbers to back up any position you want to take.
• Sixteen years on board by Jack L. Edwards
  A retiring school board member looks back on sixteen years of service on his local board of education.