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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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Posted on the EDWeek Blog. Nancy Flanagan write a compelling article about the changing role of public education. She states: "There's been a sea change in thinking about the core value of public education in American life--swings in civic opinion, changes in revenue sources, an open invitation to make a foundational public good "entrepreneurial."
"A story of America's school integration and what happened when the buses stopped rolling."
Micheal F. Smith, Original Source: 
Joy Resmovits
Mathis and Kevin G. Welner Original Source: 
Terrence Stutz, 
"This research indicates that not only might individuals be motivated to engage in social perspective taking through multiple pathways, but these pathways might be combined and/or interact with one another."
"When news broke this summer that Teach for America was expanding its presence in Chicago amid the largest school closings in that city's history and the layoffs of thousands of teachers and school staff, the 
"The purpose of this article is to uncover what scholars know and do not know about instructional leadership, paying particular attention to what they have learned about how this work is done and where knowledge falls short."
"A child engaged in self-directed learning is a marvelous sight to behold. Her unrestrained curiosity leads her to discover the things that genuinely interest and matter to her. Her drives to explore, understand, play with, and thereby master those things, and her joy when she succeeds, are palpable. Such a child is fully alive to the world and to learning."
Mr. Burnstein writes: "First, she is America's foremost educational historian. Second, having served on the National Assessment Governing Board (which oversees that National Assessment of Education Progress, often called America's education report card), she is well-positioned to explain what the data from NAEP really means, which is not how it is (mis)used by many of the "reformers." Further, she writes clearly, enabling the non-technical reader, the person who not a professional in education or policy or statistics, to understand what the data means. 
Diane Ravitch reviews an article by Sharon Higgins about the misleading information surrounding STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). "The STEM alarm is definitely a manufactured crisis." A well documented article. 