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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Dans Blog</title><description>Dans Blog</description><atom:link href="http://www.aasaconnect.com/RSS/DansBlog.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True</link><item><title>Special Education Reform: Let the Dialogue Begin</title><description>EARLIER THIS MONTH, AASA released a set of proposals intended to offer an alternative to the current, federally-mandated process by which parents and ...</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:14:44 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=571&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=571&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Considering the Value of Great School Leadership</title><description>This year’s National Conference on Education, from the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), was held in Los Angeles in February. More...</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:50:05 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=501&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=501&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>A Great Idea at Risk</title><description>The Common Core is another great idea at risk of being sabotaged by our penchant for accountability. Call it what you will but in this day of global c...</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:04:50 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=495&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=495&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>My Response to "Arne Duncan's Distracting Gaffe."</title><description>Response to "Arne Duncan's Distracting Gaffe." National Journal Education Experts Blog. Posted March 4, 2013

The Schools Who Can Least Afford It 
...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:06:34 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=475&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=475&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Coming Soon: A National Superintendent Certification Program</title><description> The American Association of School Administrators is about to reinvent itself. Founded in 1865, the year when the Civil War came to an end and Abraha...</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:45:46 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=472&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=472&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Superintendents:  Leaders Envisioning and Developing the Future of New York Public Education 
</title><description>Guest Post by Jere I. Hochman, Superintendent, Bedford, New York
Reprinted with permission from NYS Council of School Superintendents

In “envision...</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:12:06 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=471&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=471&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Not a Solution</title><description>Posted on National Journal's Education Experts blog, Feb. 4, 2013, addressing the issue of tension surrounding school closings.

Closing a school is...</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:11:12 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=462&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=462&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Teacher Evaluation Correlated to Test Scores is Problematic</title><description>Guest Post: Charles Maranzano, Jr., Ed. D., Superintendent, Hopatcong Borough Schools

States and Schools across the country are scrambling to imple...</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:25:17 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=442&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=442&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Doing Something After Newtown</title><description>Guest Post by Donald J. Cymrot, the vice president of Education at CNA and Stephen E. Rickman, the director of Justice Programs at CNA.

In the afte...</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:30:57 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=439&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=439&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Guest Post from Alan Blankstein</title><description>Below is an excerpt from a post by Alan Blankstein, the founder of the HOPE Foundation, which appeared under the title "The Real Issue Isn't Common Co...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:03:07 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=438&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=438&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Superintendent of the Year Finalists at National Press Club Today</title><description>January 8, 2013
I was so proud to represent AASA today at a press conference at the National Press Club to introduce the four finalists for AASA’s Na...</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:49:27 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=436&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=436&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>What U.S. Schools Can Learn From Russia</title><description>An excerpt from my recent eSchool News Learning Leadership column.

There is a tendency to beat up on our public schools based on the performance of...</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:39:08 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=435&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=435&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Our Hearts Are Broken</title><description>Guest post by Sheldon Berman, the Superintendent of the Eugene 4J Public Schools

All of us feel the pain of the parents, families, neighbors and fr...</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:39:07 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=432&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=432&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>AASA To Publish National Vision for Education</title><description>Announcement: AASA this winter will put forth a vision of what a 21st century American public educational system should look like. Superintendents aro...</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:10:02 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=401&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=401&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Visiting Our Nebraska Colleagues</title><description>Omaha, Nebraska - AASA Executive Director Dan Domenech, visited with Mike Dulaney and spoke to the superintendents in the Nebraska Association of Scho...</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:51:51 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=395&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=395&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Why Are Women So Underrepresented in Educational Leadership?</title><description>An excerpt from my recent eSchool News Learning Leadership column.

Recently, I had the unique opportunity to be one of a handful of males who sat i...</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:05:19 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=380&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=380&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Does the Whole World Devalue Pedagogy, Experience?</title><description>St. Petersburg, Russia - Today the People to People AASA Delegation met with officials and staff from the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russi...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:12:26 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=379&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=379&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>High Performing St. Petersburg School Rewarded With Status, Increased Funding</title><description>New Russian Law May Require Parents To Pay for Higher Level Classes

St. Petersburg, Russia - The Gymnasium #11 School in St. Petersburg, Russia, ha...</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:34:05 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=377&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=377&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>A Moscow School Where Environment Embraces Learning</title><description>Moscow, Russia - Efim Rachevskiy is the principal of Moscow School #548, a complex of four buildings and 2250 students that span from preschool to the...</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:06:02 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=376&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=376&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Report from Moscow:  Education a Priority Here</title><description>Preschool Investment Pays Off

Moscow, Russia - This year's AASA's International Symposium is taking place in Russia and AASA President, Benny Goode...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:09:20 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=375&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=375&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>How To Achieve True Educational Transformation</title><description>With the U.S. elections approaching, here’s some advice for the candidates—an excerpt from my column in the October eSchool News.

With the country ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:43:12 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=359&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=359&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Voc Ed is Not a Second-Class Option</title><description>Here's an excerpt from my latest post on the National Journal's Education Experts' blog. 

The Obama administration has set a goal - by 2020 the Uni...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:11:55 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=356&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=356&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Scaling the School Wall</title><description>An excerpt from my Oct. 4, Ed Week blog, Transforming Learning.

There are many factors outside the school that affect a child's ability to learn. O...</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:37:13 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=320&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=320&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>School Breakfast, A Leadership Challenge</title><description>Through a grant funded by the Walmart Foundation, AASA has implemented a school breakfast initiative, working with four urban districts to put into pl...</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:25:33 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=310&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=310&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Until We Get Rid of Funding Inequities, True Education Reform Can’t Happen</title><description>In my eSchool News column this month, I ask readers to consider the fundamental challenge facing education reform: funding inequities. Read an excerpt...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:29:41 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=299&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=299&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>7 Qualities of the Courageous Leader</title><description>The following is a guest post by Alan M. Blankstein, founder of the HOPE Foundation, a leadership organization internationally recognized for re-cultu...</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:53:12 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=294&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=294&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>The Superintendent and the Board: The Dream Team</title><description>Guest Post from Karen L. Echeverria, Executive Director, Idaho School Boards Association. This article originally appeared in the ISBA Voice on August...</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:10:54 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=289&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=289&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Investing in Health To Enhance Readiness</title><description>Although the challenges public education faces — fiscally, economically, politically, and socially — are complex, there are discrete solutions that we...</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:50:45 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=286&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=286&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Teacher Evaluation Practices Need More Comprehensive Reforms</title><description>GUEST POST 
By Superintendent Charles Maranzano, Jr., Hopatcong Public Schools, New Jersey

A new state mandate proposed by legislators to rate tea...</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:34:01 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=282&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=282&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>It's Time to Blow Up the Current Grade-Level Structure</title><description>From July 2012 edition of eSchool News: 

I want to blow up K-12 education! Not the public school system, just the grade level structure that has re...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:23:35 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=262&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=262&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Maryland Superintendents Applaud AASA's Advocacy Work</title><description>July 4th brought us an email from Carl Roberts, Executive Director of the Public School Superintendents'' Association of Maryland. Carl attended our S...</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:10:12 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=259&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=259&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>The Creativity Conundrum in Public Education Leadership</title><description> 
The Creativity Conundrum in Education Leadership, an interesting new research project, hypothesizes about a “creativity gap” in public education. W...</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:15:36 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=240&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=240&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>A Sobering Look at the Economic Recession and Its Impact on Our Nation’s Schools</title><description>During my 27-year tenure as a superintendent of schools, I always complained about insufficient funds to provide for the needs of our students, but I ...</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:01:45 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=238&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=238&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>YES to Free Expression, NO to Personal Attacks</title><description>Guest Post by Bruce Hunter, Associate Executive Director, Advocacy, Policy and Communications

This week, a coalition of 17 educational, religious a...</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:21:17 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=230&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=230&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Senate Bill on Restraint Would Tie School Leaders' Hands</title><description>Rather than additional federal intrusion into state and local matters, state can pass--and many have passed--laws specifying the use of seclusion and ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:13:23 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=215&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=215&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>National Study on Arts Education Supports Engagement in the Arts</title><description>Guest Post by Dr. Charles Maranzano, Jr., Superintendent of Schools for Hopatcong Borough, NJ

According to Education Week, a weekly publication by ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 16:34:20 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=212&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=212&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Guest Post:  Benny L. Gooden, AASA President-Elect</title><description> 
Guest Post From Benny L. Gooden, AASA President-Elect 

AASA Singing Superintendents Director Applications Requested

For more than fifty years...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:40:52 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=209&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=209&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Why Teacher Evaluation Ratings Should Not Be Made Public</title><description>GUEST POST
By Charles Maranzano, Jr. Superintendent, Hopatcong, New Jersey 

Several states are considering publishing the results of teacher evalu...</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:51:37 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=189&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=189&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Little Relief in Sight</title><description>From Transforming Learning, an Ed Week blog from the Learning First Allicance

&amp;#65279;&amp;#65279;&amp;#65279;Today, the American Association of School Adm...</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:12:45 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=186&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=186&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Guest Post: Teacher Satisfaction May Impact the Future of Public Education  </title><description>By Charles Maranzano, Jr.
Superintendent, Hopatcong, New Jersey
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A report published by Education Week on March 7, 2012, concerns itself with...</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:30:42 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=185&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=185&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>What Public School Administrators Want From Policy Makers</title><description>Here are excerpts from my March 2012 column in eSchool News. Let me know what you think by adding your comment below. 
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“First and foremost,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:18:41 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=183&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=183&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>States Must Work Together</title><description>From National Journal Education Experts Blog, Feb. 27, 2012

The standards movement was in its heyday when I first became superintendent of schools ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:38:43 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=158&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=158&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Response to President Obama's Budget Proposal</title><description>Earlier today, President Obama released his 2013 budget proposal. AASA is pleased to see that the Administration continues to shine a light on educati...</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:10:03 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=157&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=157&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>The Proper Role of Federal Govt. in Education</title><description>What do you think is the proper role of the federal government in elementary and secondary education? How can the federal government best support loca...</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:36:59 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=155&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=155&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Turning Our Backs on Vocational Education</title><description>Posted on the National Journal Education Expert Blogs 

We are encouraged by President Obama’s emphasis on workforce skills in his State of the Unio...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:15:56 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=154&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=154&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>It’s Time To Strengthen the P-16 Continuum</title><description>For true education reform to occur, K-12 schools must work together with preschool programs and colleges

A major impediment to education reform is ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:47:03 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=152&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=152&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Handwriting is Not Obsolete</title><description>Understanding the effect of how we learn to write on how well we read is key to making good decisions about how and what we teach our children. I was ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:23:09 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=143&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=143&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Congratulations to Four Finalists for Supt. of Year</title><description>The four finalists selected for the 2012 National Superintendent of the Year Program presented a panel discussion this morning at the National Press C...</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:34:21 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=140&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=140&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Tenth Anniversary of NCLB:  Reason to Celebrate or Commiserate?</title><description>GUEST POST: As NCLB turns 10, Superintendent Charles Maranzano (Hopatcong, NJ), provides insights from the front lines about the impact this law has h...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:23:12 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=139&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=139&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>U.S. Education Is Still the Best in the World—But Here’s What We Can Learn From Others</title><description>From Dan's column in eSchool News, Jan. 2012

Defending public education in America is a daunting task. The fact that we have to defend public educa...</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:30:21 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=137&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=137&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Bringing Hope</title><description>More than 40 volunteers spent the first week in December as part of an effort to build a school in the small, mountainous farming community of Constan...</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:37:45 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=119&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=119&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>The Key To Doing More with Less: Collaboration</title><description>From November eSchool News:
On Nov. 14, the American Association of School Administrators moved offices from our current location in Arlington, Va., ...</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:10:39 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=25&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=25&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Guest Post:  Shining More Light on Child Sexual Abuse</title><description>by William L. Bainbridge, Ph.D., FACFE

The potential for sexual harassment and abuse is not a new phenomenon. The Grand Jury Findings of Fact into ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:44:21 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=22&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=22&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Revisiting the Killing Fields</title><description> 
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - It's been forty-two years since Jeff Bain was in this neck of the woods. He came over to Viet Nam as a twenty-two year old h...</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:12:30 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=20&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=20&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Bringing Love Where Need Is Great</title><description> 
Siem Reap, Cambodia - "It's amazing how children are the same all over the world. They all crave love and affection," says Ed Massey, NSBA Presiden...</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:02:03 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=17&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=17&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Adventure Travel:  Street Crossing in Hanoi</title><description>Hanoi, Vietnam - Traffic in Hanoi is unlike anything we have ever seen. Motorcycles and scooters are the preferred mode of transportation and there ar...</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:03:52 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=16&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=16&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>For These Students, English is Second Nature</title><description>Hanoi, Vietnam - "What subjects should I be taking to gain admission into a business program at an American University"?

This was one of the questi...</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:56:27 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=15&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=15&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Hanoi Secondary Students a Delight</title><description>The Vietnamese culture treasures education. As is the case with many developing countries, it's seen by parents as the road to upward mobility for the...</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:11:45 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=14&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=14&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Good Morning, Vietnam</title><description>Hanoi, Vietnam--This year's AASA International Seminar has brought us to Vietnam. 

Doan Thi Diem was a famous poet, educator and role model for Vie...</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:36:51 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=13&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=13&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Many Concerns, A Few Good Points</title><description>Reposted from National Journal Expert Blogs on Education, Oct. 17, 2011

It does not appear to us that there is sufficient common ground between the...</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:49:19 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=11&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=11&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Improving public education isn’t a mystery</title><description>We know how to educate all children; what we need are the political will and the resources to do so
By Daniel A. Domenech

Do we really want a syst...</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:12:29 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=7&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=7&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>New Teacher Evaluation Framework Promises To Serve Fairly</title><description>Read Dan's September 2011 column from eSchool News

Excerpt: Essentially, improved labor-management relations are in the best interest of every scho...</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:41:45 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=6&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=6&amp;FormID=300</guid></item><item><title>Leading America’s Schools in a Toxic Climate</title><description>America can boast of having the best public schools in the world. Every June thousands of high school students graduate with honors, with Advanced Pla...</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:03:43 GMT</pubDate><link>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=2&amp;FormID=300</link><guid>http://aasa.kma.net/index.php?bid=20&amp;RequestBinary=True&amp;BlogEntryID=2&amp;FormID=300</guid></item></channel></rss>
