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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: Joe Hairston, (former) Supt., Baltimore County Public Schools, MD
President-elect: Gary Marx, President, Center for Public Outreach, VA
Vice President: Charles Fowler, Executive Director, Suburban School Superintendents
1st Past President: Mark Edwards, Supt., Mooresville Graded Schools, NC
2nd Past President: Julie Underwood, Dean, Sch. of Ed. U. of WI, Madison, WI
3rd Past President: George Garcia, (ret.) Supt., Boulder Valley Schools, CO
4th Past President: 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
Charles Fowler, Exec. Dir., Suburban School Superintendents, NH
James Harvey, Exec. Dir., Superintendents Roundtable, WA
William Hite, Supt., Philadelphia City Public Schools, PA
Christine Johns-Hines, Superintendent, Shelby Township, Michigan
Dwight Jones, Superintendent, Clark County Public Schools, NV
Eric King, Superintendent, (Ret.) Muncie Public Schools, IN
Steven Ladd, Superintendent, Elk Grove Unified School District, Elk Grove, CA
Barry Lynn, Exec. Dir., Americans United, Washington, DC
Stan Olson, Superintendent, (Ret.) Boise Public Schools, ID
Executive Director:
Jack McKay, Professor Emeritus, 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.
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"And last but not least, we come to public schools. It has been decided in the halls of power, governmental and corporate, that the way to improve schools is to unleash the power of the marketplace. We are undergoing a transformation of huge proportions in order to allow this to occur."
"Beliefs that are debatable or even patently false may be repeated so often that at some point they come to be accepted as fact.
"The scholarly proponents of the value-added approach have sent me a set of technical studies. My analysis of them showed what anyone immersed in reading research would have predicted: The value-added data are modestly stable for math, but are fuzzy and unreliable for reading. It cannot be otherwise, because of the underlying realities."
At the same time that he was writing the Common Core standards, Coleman was treasurer of Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst in its first year of operation. 
"Innovation usually inspires some measure of misunderstanding, and the growing phenomenon of massively open online courses is no different. One misconception is that MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) creators are out to replace teachers and schools. "MOOCs are not intended to do that."
"In November, Washington became the 42nd state to allow the independent public charter schools. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has now pledged nearly $800,000 to start a charter-school incubator for help with planning.
"Presents a model that identifies the reasons why parents become involved in their children's education, using the model to explain how such involvement influences the developmental and educational progress of children." Source: Teachers College Record 
"Does the threat of sanctions from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act lead schools to boost achievement scores? A recent study from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) suggests the answer to that question is a cautious 'yes.' "
"Now that President Obama has turned his attention to the problem of college affordability, it is also time to revisit a very important report that was released last year and buried by Beltway lobbyists.
Our Fayetteville Public Schools staff members are excited for back to school! Check out the 2013 Back to School video from the Fayetteville Public Schools, featuring "Let the Good Times Roll" by Ben Rector. Thanks to Ginny Lauren Hulette, Cary Pollock, and Andrew Silvia for their great work in producing it. 