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• Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961 

  Baughman, James. Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 460 pp....

  Journalism History, 04/01/08 by Russo, Alexander · More from publication

• Mergers, annexations, dissolutions: whatever it's called, school district consolidation can try superintendents' souls and test the limits of rural community pride 

  Things are going much better than expected with the school district consolidation that's taking place in Corning, Ark. Created from two separate...

  School Administrator, 03/01/06 by Alexander Russo · More from publication

• Retaining retention: how Chicago changed—but ultimately saved—its controversial program to end social promotion 

  In a remarkable confluence of events last winter and spring, questions about student retention became the swirling center of education debate in...

  Education Next, 01/01/05 by Alexander Russo · More from publication

• Evaluating administrators with portfolios: principals report mostly positive experiences when used as part of a performance review 

  Seven years ago when Andy Dotson became principal of Phelps High School in Pike County, Ky., the school was the lowest-performing high school in...

  School Administrator, 10/01/04 by Alexander Russo · More from publication

• The waiting game: graduates of new leaders for new schools sport enviable resumes and a zeal for education reform. But will school districts give them the key to the principal's office? 

  ON THE FIRST Monday of the 2003-04 school year, Pablo Sierra was not where he hoped to be. Instead of greeting students as the new principal of a...

  Education Next, 06/22/04 by Alexander Russo · More from publication

• Mental examinations in federal employment litigation 

  Complete emotional tranquility is seldom attainable in the world, and some degree of transient and trivial emotional distress is a part of the...

  Florida Bar Journal, 05/01/04 by Alexander D. del Russo · More from publication

• Fast forward: a Chicago program that propels ambitious newcomers into the principal's office is influencing New York's reform agenda. (Intelligence Making Change). 

  KATE GARRISON IS HAVING a great year--even though she works long hours and eats lunch when others are already thinking about dinner. Garrison,...

  City Limits, 05/01/03 by Russo, Alexander · More from publication

• Political educator: Paul Vallas became the nation's most sought-after superintendent by bringing order and energy to Chicago's moribund school system - Feature 

  A STEADY TRICKLE OF WELL-WISHERS APPROACH FORMER CHICAGO schools superintendent Paul Vallas during a quiet morning at Petro's, the Greek-run...

  Education Next, 01/01/03 by Alexander Russo · More from publication

• The school that works. 

  A Windy City high school gives low-income teenagers a Jesuit education for just $2,200 a year--if they're willing to work for it. But will New...

  City Limits, 01/01/03 by Russo, Alexander · More from publication

• When school choice isn't: this fall, millions of kids have the right to leave failing schools. Too bad there's nowhere else for them to go 

  CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IS A typical troubled school in the down-on-its-luck working-class town of Zion, Ill. Located an hour north of Chicago...

  Washington Monthly, 09/01/02 by Alexander Russo · More from publication