Schools Boards in America: A Flawed Exercise in Democracy
Press Clippings for Schools Boards in America
| How to Reform School Boards |
| School boards are the Rodney Dangerfields of education—garnering little respect and serving as objects of derision. |
| studentsfirst.org 5/25/2011 |
| William McKenzie: School Trustees Deserve Scrutiny |
| Until voters pay closer attention to the quality of school board members, this situation will keep playing itself out. And not only in North Texas, but in many places. With exceptions, like the Houston district, superintendents and trustees often are unequally yoked. |
| Dallas News 5/23/2011 |
| Is this Democracy at it's Best? |
| John DeFlaminis was struck by the scrupulousness of the process to which he had to submit himself when he became a candidate for the board of a top private school in the Philadelphia area. |
| The School Administrator 3/27/2011 |
| Atlanta's to-do list on education |
| School governance is one of those boring topics no one thinks much about and is more or less invisible — until it isn’t done right, as happened in Atlanta. |
| AJC.COM 3/25/2011 |
| Opinion: The trouble with tenure |
| GOVERNOR CHRISTIE would like to make New Jersey Ground Zero for the nation’s face-off with teachers. What happens here may be a test of how far some states will go in making changes in tenure, teacher evaluation and teacher compensation. |
| THE RECORD 2/16/2011 |
| School boards on front line of education reform in Oklahoma |
| In the cities, suburbs and small towns this week, Oklahomans elected dozens of people to serve on local school boards. It’s a largely thankless job that pays little or nothing, but it’s important. So very important. |
| NewsOk.com 2/11/2011 |
| State takeover of Cleveland schools might not help: Gene I. Maeroff |
| If the method by which a school district is governed guaranteed the academic success of its students, Cleveland's system by now would have found a way to improve markedly. But throughout decades of governance changes, the city's public schools have not come close to providing the level of education that good suburban communities from Solon to Avon Lake take for granted. |
| Cleveland Plain Dealer 2/6/2011 |
| School Boards and Adult Issues |
| Anyone who is interested in school governance should check out the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of the Atlanta School Board. In brief, all its high schools were put on probation this month by an accrediting organization due to dysfunctional behavior on the APS school board... |
| Voices in Education: The Blog of Harvard Education 1/28/2011 |
| Review: School Boards in America: A Flawed Exercise in Democracy |
| Barring a scandal, school boards fly under the education-media radar. Yet these bodies spend nearly $600 billion in public funding and employ millions of Americans. This book offers a detailed and nuanced look at the history, practicality, and future of these darlings of local control—and asserts that they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. |
| Education Gadfly 1/27/2011 |
| School board prez takes national look at BOEs |
| Local author Gene I. Maeroff takes an in-depth look at the role of boards of education in the United States in his latest book, “School Boards in America: A Flawed Exercise in Democracy.” |
| Edison-Metuchen Sentinel 1/19/2011 |