The Horace Mann League of the USA 
Greetings! 
Welcome to the December 17, 2012, edition of the Horace Mann League Blog. 

Season's Greetings from the Officers and Directors of the Horace Mann League.

Mark Edwards, President, The Horace Mann League of the U.S.A.
Jack McKay, Executive Director, The Horace Mann League of the U.S.A.
Some of the recent postings on the HML Blog for December 17, 2012.
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Our prayers for the parents, relatives, and friends of those who were affected by the events on Friday in the Newtown community and Sandy Hook Elementary School.

This week's postings:
U.S. vs. International Students  By Jim Hull  from the ASBJ 
But when you look at international assessments as a whole, you clearly see areas where U.S. students excel, along with areas with a clear need for improvement. 

  

Protecting the Choice to Stay by David R. Garcia

More correctly, the public policy discussion should be framed as a matter of competing parental choices; the choice to divert public funds away from public schools and the "constitutionally-supported" choice to send students to public schools.  

  

Ed Schools - The Sequel: Rise of the Intellectually Dead by Bruce Baker

.  .  .  the rhetoric of "ed school" assumes a static definition of ed school - rooted in a 1950s to 1970s characterization of the regional public teachers college, and built on an assumption that teachers obtain their training and a teaching credential - for the one thing they teach - through a single institution as the core of their undergraduate education.  

  

For Education Policymaking  by William Mathis

The threshold policy decision is whether public funds should be provided to choice schools, particularly to schools run by private corporations or religious institutions. Issues such as democratic governance, accountability of public funds, quality control and church/state concerns must first be carefully deliberated.

  

How do You Defeat an Army of Determined Educators? by Anthony Cody

This framing is, in itself, remarkable. That a "movement" generously financed from the deep pockets of our nation's billionaires would have the chutzpah to claim for itself the mantle of underdog should be laughable.  

  

Other postings for this week:

 

 

 
About Us
The Horace Mann League of the USA is an honorary society that promotes the ideals of Horace Mann by advocating for public education as the cornerstone of our democracy.

 

Officers:
President: Mark Edwards, Supt., Mooresville Graded Schools, NC
President-elect: Joe Hairston, (ret.) Supt., Baltimore County Public Schools, MD
Vice President: Gary Marx, President, Center for Public Outreach, VA
Past President: Julie Underwood, Dean, Sch. of Ed. U. of WI, Madison
2nd Past Pres: George Garcia, (ret.) Supt., Boulder Valley Schools, CO
3rd Past Pres: Steve Rasmussen, Supt., Issaquah School District, WA

 

Directors:
Martha Bruckner, Supt., Council Bluffs Community Schools, IA
Evelyn Blose-Holman, (ret.) Superintendent, Bay Shore Schools, NY
Carol Choye, Instructor, Bank Street College, NY
Brent Clark, Exec. Dir., Illinois Assoc. of School Admin. IL
Linda Darling Hammond, Professor of Education, Stanford U. CA
Nancy DeFord, Supt. (Ret.) Park City Schools, UT
Charles Fowler, Exec. Dir., Suburban School Superintendents, NH
James Harvey, Exec. Dir., Superintendents Roundtable, WA
William Hite, Supt., Philadelphia City Schools, PA
Dwight Jones, Supt., Clark County Schools, NV
Eric King, Supt., (Ret.) Muncie Public Schools, IN
Barry Lynn, Exec. Dir., Americans United, Washington, DC
Stan Olson, Supt. (Ret.) Boise Public Schools, ID
Douglas Otto, Assoc.Prof.,Ed. Ad., University of North Texas, TX

 

Executive Director:
Jack McKay, Professor, (Ret.) University of Nebraska at Omaha, 
560 Rainier Lane, Port Ludlow, WA 98365 (360) 821 9877
 
To become a member of the HML, click here to download an application.