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The Fifth Phi Delta Kappa Poll Of Teachers' Attitudes Toward The Public Schools By Carol A. Langdon Art © Linda Weatherly THIS MARKS Phi Delta Kappa's fifth opportunity to compare the attitudes of the nation's public school teachers with those of the public on some of education's hot-button issues. Over the years since 1984, when Phi Delta Kappa and the Gallup Organization conducted their first nationwide survey of teachers, one trend has clearly emerged: teachers' perceptions of wh ...

On-line registration and hotel accommodations for the NEASC 121st Annual Meeting and Conference, December 6-8, 2006, are now available. 209 Burlington Road Bedford, Massachusetts 01730-1433, USA 781/271-0022; fax: 781/271-0950

Issues ... about Change Volume 4 Number 11994 Schools as Learning Communities Learning community has become a popularly used term in educational literature, particularly with regard to school reform. The idea of a learning community is an adaptation of the concept of learning organizations, described by Senge (1990). Learning organizations are comprised of people who see themselves as connected to each other and the world, where creative thinking is nurtured, and ". . . where peop ...

Issues ... about Change Volume 3, Number 41994 The Board's Role In Educational Improvement Initially considered to be an instrument of fiscal prudence and guarantor of the proper socialization of the community's children (Conley, 1993), "modern school boards . . . were founded on the belief that citizens should control the policies that determine how the children in our communities are educated" (Staff, March 1992, p. 1). For the most part, local school boards have spent much of t ...

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