Research and Information Services

AMERICAN DISABILITIES ACT - Internet Information

1. "Benefit Plan Limitations after the Americans with Disabilities Act"
2. "Anatomy of an ADA Case" (EMAIL)
3. "Get Your Buildings ADA OK: Implementing a Compliance Plan"
   

ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION

1. "Hanging on To Hope"
2. "Saturday School"
3. "Chrysalis School"
4. "Evaluation of Alternative Education Programs"
5. "Second Chance Schools"
6. "Holding At-Risk Students: The Secret Is One-on-One"
7. "The Pull of Magnets"
8. "From H.S. to Middle School: An Alternative School Program for Both"
   
   

B

BLOCK SCHEDULING

1. "Block Scheduling in Texas public schools" (research report in pdf format)
2. "You Say: Block Scheduling Works" (mar 98)
3. "Steps for Improving School Climate in Block Scheduling" (1997)
4. "Killing Time" (1997)
5. "Block Scheduling: Building Block for Success or Education's Hula Hoop?"
6. "The Case Against Block Scheduling" (September 1995)
7. "Bethel High School Block Scheduling: 1994-95"
8. "Dover Renew 2000: Implementation of a Block Schedule"
9. "Scheduling - Block System"
10. "Directory of High School Scheduling Models in Virginia"
11. "The New School on The Block"
12. "Block Scheduling in the High School" (ERS)
13. "More and More Schools Putting Block Scheduling to Test of Time"
14. "New Kid on the Block (Schedule)"
15. "Teaching Block-Scheduled Class Periods"
16. "Elements of Successful Change in Block Scheduling"
17. "Block That Schedule"
18. "Want More on Block Scheduling?"
19. "All Around the Block: The Benefits and Challenges of a Non-Traditional School Schedule"
20. "Models of Block Scheduling"
21. "Why More Time Makes More Sense: Macro Scheduling Brings Benefits to Student Learning"
22. "What We Know About5 Blocks Schedulingand Its Effects on Math Instruction: Part I"
23. "Evaluation of a 4 X 4 Block Schedule"
24. "Six Keys to Block Scheduling"
25. "Block Scheduling" (ERIC Digest, Number 104)
    

BUDGETING/FINANCE

1. "How US Schools are financed Today" (Sept. 98)
2. "NewWays to Fund New Projects" - ERS (1998)
3. "Report Blasts 'Hidden' Public Costs of Channel One News Program" May-98
4. "Cola Wars - More Money for Schools" (May-98)
5. "3 Kinds of Equity" (May 98)
6. "11 Ways to Make Money (May 98)
7. "14 Ways to Save Money" (May 98)
8. "1998-2000 Composite Index of Local Ability-to-Pay" (Virginia Nov. 1997)
9. "Panel to Look at Effciency in Schools" (1997)
10. "Redefining School Based Budgeting for High Performance"
11. "Lottery Contributes Record $343 Million to the Commonwealth"
12. "The Telecommunications Act of 1996: A guide for Educators"
13. "What Administrators Are Saying (and doing) About Privatization"
14. "Running in Place: K-12 Funding Falls Further Behind
15. "Budgets in the News: Media Coverage of School Budgets"
16. "Tracking Money to the Classroom: Developing a Model Accounting System"
17. "Profiting from Defeat: A Strategy for Passing Budgets"
18. "Creating Understanding: Communicating Financial Information Clearly"
19. "Local School Budget Profiles Study"
20. "The Future Demands It Now: Multi-Year Budgeting"
21. "Could Your Budget use C-P-R? Cost Saving Measures for Budgets"
22. "Special Interest Groups: How to Use Them to Your Advantage"
23. "Don't Get Squeezed: The Secret to Compressing Salary Schedules"
24. "What Does the Money Buy: Allocation and use of Educational Resources"
25. "Computerized Co-op Cuts Cost: Software Purchasing Program Saves Money"
26. "Managing for Results: Linking Performance Measures and Budgets"
27. "All for One: Integrating Budgetary Methods by Computer"
28. "Getting Beyond Traditional Measures of District Financial Health"
29. "Putting Value on Your Vision"
30. "Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education (1993-94)"
31. "Aid to Localities - 1996-98 Biennium" (Supts. Memo No 1, March 12, 1996)
32. "Local School Budget Profiles Study"
33. "Inexpensive Yet Effective Ways to Publicize Yours Schools"
34. "Budget Manual for Virginia School Boards" (A 1996 VSBA Publication)
35. "Public School Spending: The TRUTH"
36. "Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education (1993-94)"
37. "How One Board Implemented Site-Based Budgeting"
38. "How Your Tax Dollars Are Spent"
39. "Pursuing Federal Funds"
40. "Study Reveals Funding Gaps Across States" (3/20/97)
41. "Efficient Financial Management in Rural Schools: Common Problems and Solutions from the Field"
42. "A Bottom Line Resource: Districts call o FCMAT for Fiscal Fortification"
43. "The Right Stuff: Finding Ways to Win School Bond Elections"
44. "Don't Tread on My Tax Rate" (APRIL 98)
45. "Getting Down to Business: Some business practices are right for schools" - June 98

CENSORSHIP

1. "Banning Books from the Classroom: How to Handle Cries for Censorship"
2. "Censorship of Curriculum Materials"
3. "Creating Board policies for Student use of the Internet"
4. "Banned Books On-Line"
   

CHARTER SCHOOLS - Internet Information

1. "The State of Charter Schools" 3rd Year Report - US Dept of Ed. (1999)
2. "The Case for School Choice: US/References" also avail on line
3. "An Overview of Charter Schools" (March 1/99)
4. "The Best and Worst of Charter Schools" (Nov. 97)
5. "California and the West: Legislators May Offer Charter School Deal" (Apr. 98)
6. "The New Education Bazaar" (Apr. 27, 98)
7. "Charter Schools in perspective" (May 97)
8. "Debunking Charter Schools: What Board Members Really Need to Know" (Jan 98)
9. "Education with Accountability", Mar 97
10. "Charter Schools: Good for Parents and Students" (July 97)
11. "Half of Charter School Students are Minorities" (May 97)
12. "Who Needs Charter School?" Feb. 98
13. "Report Cards Still Out - It's Hard to Grade Charter Schools, Unless you Count Loyalty" (Nov. 97)
14. "Princeton Charter School Adds up to Division" (Mar 97)
15. "Charter Schools Get a Lift" (mar 98)
16. "Charter Schools Review" (NSBA (1998)
17. "The Basics of Charter Schools: A School Board Primer": (NSBA-1997)
18. "Definitions (Charter Schools" (Sept. 97)
19. "Charter Schools: The Smiling Face of Disinvestment" (Oct. 96)
20. "A Study of Charter Schools: First Year Report" (Executive Summary) May 1997 (EMAIL)
21. "Charter Schools: Whom Do They Serve, and How Well" (1997)
22. "Michigan Tests Show Charter Schools Behind" (1997)
23. "A Piece of Tomorrow: Chartered School Aims to Bridge Achievement Gap for Minority Kids" (Sept. 1997)
24. "The New School: Charter Schools Offer the Benefits of both Public and Private Schools" Sept. 1997
25. "Charter Schools: Good Medicine or Bitter Pill?"
26. "Charter Schools in Action: What Have We Learned?" (EMAIL)
27. "The Building Blocks of Charter Schools" (Aug. 97)
28. "A Study of Charter Schools: A First Year Report - May 1997"
29. "Charter Schools: Good Medicine or Bitter Pill?
30. "Blocking Genuine School Reform"
31. "In Wisconsin: School Choice Tested"
32. "Charter Schools: A New Breed of Public Schools"
33. "Charter Schools" (American School Board Journal-Sept. 94)
34. "Charter Champion"
35. "A Survey and Analysis of the Laws and Practices of the States -Charter Schools-1995"
36. "Charting a New Course"
37. "The Charter School Movement in California and Elsewhere"
38. "Bowling Green Elementary Charter School"
39. "Variations on a Trend in Public Education"
40. "Why Charter Schools?"
41. "Charter Profit"
42. "The Promise of Charter Schools"
43. "A Progress Report on California's Charter Schools"
44. "How to Plan a Charter School"
45. "Roads to Reform"
46. "Why Not Charter School Boards?" (EMAIL)
47. "Reinventing Urban Public Education"
48. "What Can U.S. Charter Schools Learn from England's Grant-Maintained Schools?"
49. "Charter Schools: Choices for Parents, Chances for Children"
50. "Chartering Diversity"
51. "A New Breed of School"
52. "Minnesota Teachers Can Seek Charters to Run Their Own Schools"
53. "Joint Subcommittee Studying Charter Schools" (Virginia)
54. "House Bill 875" (Virginia)
55. "Checkup on Charter Schools"
56. "A Citizen's Legal Guide to the PRIME (Charter) Schools Initiative" (Mississippi)
57. "Plotting a New Course for Education"
58. "How Many Will Choose? School Choice and Student Enrollment Planning"
59. "Waivers from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act"
60. "Charter Schools: What Are They Up To?" (A 1995 Survey)
61. "Charter Schools Gain Momentum"
62. "Under the Microscope"
63. "Charter Schools: A Status Report"
64. "Critical Components of Charter School: An Analysis by State"
65. "Charter Schools on the Internet"
66. " Charter Schools Funding" (Letter from VSBA to Va. House of Delegates and Senate (Feb. 10, 1997) )
67. "Charter Schools: A Status Report"
68. "Advocates Seek to Broaden Calif. Charter Schools Law"
69. "Researchers Recount the Pluses of Charter Schools"
70. "EAI Seeks to Team With Developers to Build Charter Schools in Arizona"
71. "Charter Schools Debut in New Jersey"
72. "Mass. Pla to Triple Number of Charter Schools Scrutinized"
73. "Charter Schools: The Research"
74. "City Academy"
75. "One School's Journey in the Age of Reform"
76. "Possibilities, Problems, and Progress: Early Lessons from the Charter Movement"
77. "The Evolving Charter School Movement"
78. "A PIECE OF TOMORROW/Chartered School" Sept. 97 (Email)
79. "Charter Schools Surge as Parents Seek Options" (May 1998) (Email)
80. "Charter Schools Expected to Double Under New Law" (May 98)
81. "Charter Schools Manual for Virginia School Boards" (June 1998)
82. "Virginia Signs the Charter" (E-Mail)
83. "How Charter Schools are Different" (March 98)
84. "Heat and Light in the Charter School Movement" March 98 (E-Mail)
85. "Charter Schools Struggle with Accountability" June 98 (E-Mail)
86. "Ready or Not, Here Come Charter Schools" June 98 - (E-Mail)
87. "Charters creating 'financial disaster' for private schools" (Aug 98) (E-Mail)
88. "A NEW Form of Segregation?" (E-Mail)
89. "The Basics of Charter Schools: A School Board Primer" (Sept. 98)
90. "Charter Schools Issues"

CLASS/School SIZE

1. "School Size - Bigger is Not Better" (Oct. 99) available on line
2. "Schools for the Future" (August 99)
3. "NCEF Information Resources" (Aug. 99)
4. "A National Effort to Reduce Class Size" (May 98)
5. "Reducing CLass Size: What DO We Know?" (May 98)
6. "The Wisdom of Investing in Class Size Reduction" - Jan 98
7. "The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades" Fall/95
8. "Big Ideas for Downsizing Schools" Jan. 98
9. "Finding Safety in Small Numbers" (Ot. 97)
10. "Is Reducing Class Size Worth the Cost" (Oct. 1997)
11. "Ongoing Dilemmas of School Size" (ERIC DIgest - Dec. 96)
12. "Less Is More"
13. "At Last: A Better Way to Measure Class Size"
14. "Findings Related to School Size""Class Size: A Summary of Research"
15. "Size Wise"
16. "Creating Successful Schools for All Children: A Proven Step"
17. "Answers and Questions About Class Size: A Statewide Experiment"
18. "Smaller Classes Really Are Better"
19. "Class Size and Student Achievement: Research-Based Policy Alternatives"
20. "Synthesis of Research on the Effects of Class Size"
21. "Cut Class Size in Half: Without Hiring More Teachers"
22. "Class Size Reduction in Metro-Nashville: A Three-Year Cohort Study"
23. "The Educational Effects of a State Support Reduced Class Size Program"
24. "Five Years of Small-Class Research: Student Benefits Derived from Reduced P:T Ratios: Grade Four Results"
25. "Eduational Attainment of Persons 25 Years and Older by State" (1990-80-70)
26. "State Government Finances" (1994)
27. "Average Population Per Household ad Family" (1940-Present)
28. "Households, by Type, 1940-Present"
29. "Annual High School Dropout Rate by Sex (1967-1993)
30. "School Enrollment of Persons 3 - 34 Years Old, by Level" (1955-93)
31. "Size Matters" (size of school)
32. "Class Size: Is less more?
33. "Smaller Classes Really are Better"(1992)
34. "Class Size and Student Achievement: Research-Based Initiatives" (1990)
35. "Synthesis of Research on Effects of Class Size" (1990)
36. "Cut class size in half - without hiring more teachers" (1989)
37. "A Meta-Analysis of the Relation between Class Size and Achievement" (1989)
38. "Class Size Reduction in orth Gibson School Corp: A 3-yr. Cohort Study" (1988)
39. "Effects of Reduced Class Size in Primary Grades" (1988)
40. "The Educational Effects of a State Supported Reduced Class Size Program" (1987)
41. "How Changing Class Size Affects Classrooms and Students" (1990)
42. "Project STAR: Final Executive Summary Report: 1985-89 - K-3rd grade" (1990)
43. "Instruction in Special Education Classrooms under Varying Student-Teacher Ratios" (1993)
44. "Should We Reduce Class Size?" (1992)
45. "Questions and Answers About Class Size: A Statewide Experiment" (1990)
46. "Creating Successful Schools for All Children: A Proven Step" (1992)
47. "Size Wise" (1994)
48. "SMALL is Far Better" (Nov. 92)
49. "Research on Class Size" (May 98)
50. " Small Classes: Popular but still Unproven" (1998)
51. "The Effect of Class Size on Achievement: What the Research Says" (1998)
52. "Teacher Aides and Student Learning: Project STAR" (ERS -98)
53. "Federal Class Size Reports Do an About-Face" June 98 (E-Mail)
    

DATA (TESTING, EVALUATION, and STATISTICS)

1. "Public School Student Staff and Graduate Counts by State, School Year 1995-96" July 1997
2. "Data Driven School Improvement" Jan 97 - ERIC Digest
3. "Virginia Education Report Card: A Report on the Status of Public Education in Virginia and What Works" (The Family Foundation) - 1996
4. "Test Prep 101"
5. "Drop-Out Rate 1995" (Diskette: large report)
6. "What Do Test Scores Measure?"
7. "Third International Mathematics and Science Study:"
8. "Report Card on Virginia School Districts" (Richmond Times Dispatch - Dec. 95)
9. "Virginia Department of Education: Outcome Accountability Project - 1996 Interpretive Guide to Reports"
10. "Labor Market Outcomes of Literacy and Education - January 1996"
11. "Student Absenteeism and Tardiness - June 1996"
12. "Virginia's population: Changing Patterns of Growth" (June 1996)
13. "Job Satisfaction of the American Teacher"
14. "Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by State for 1994-95"
15. "Population Growth in Virginia: 20th Century and Beyond"
16. "Composite Picture of American Education"
17. "Standards and Performance"
18. "Summary of Expenditures for Public Education by Purpose (1919-1993)"
19. "Student Use of Computers" Dec. 1995
20. "Education Vital Signs - 1995"
21. "Education Vital Signs - 1989"
22. "Education Vital Signs - 1987"
23. "Education Vital Signs - 1985"
24. "Federal Support for Education - Fiscal Years 1980-95"
25. "Education Characteristics of the Population"
26. "Kids Count Data Book - 1996"
27. "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 1992-93"
28. "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 1993-94"
29. "Overview of Public Elem. and Sec. Schools and Districts (1994-95)"
30. "What the Numbers Say: The Changing Demographics of American Education"
31. "Science Proficiency and Course Take in High School" U.S> Dept. of Ed.)-1997
32. TIMSS, Rhymes with 'Dims,' As in 'Witted' - May 98
33. "Status of Education Reform in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: Principals' Perspectives" (May 98)

DESEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION

1. "The Changing Face of Racial isolation and Desegregation in Urban Schools"
2. "Kansas City and the Limits of Desegregation"
3. "Suit Seeks Minneapolis Backing of Desegregation Plan"
4. "Magnet Schools Swell in Number, Demand Still Unmet"
5. "Title I of ESEA: Helping Disadvantage Children Meet High Standards"
6. "Daily Report Card" - (Friday, October 6, 1995)
7. "Employment Discrimination Law Materials"
   
   
   
   

DISTANCE LEARNING - Internet Information

1. "Distance Education Subject Research"
2. "What is Distance Education"
3. "Students At Risk of Dropping Out: Developing Accurate Criteria to identify Them"
4. "Distance Learning, the Internet, and the World Wide Web"
5. "Evaluation of the Star Schools Projects"
6. "The World's First Public High School Diploma program completely on the Internet! "
   

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EARLY RETIREMENT PLANS

1. "Do Early Outs Work Out? Teacher Early Retirement Incentive Plans"
2. "Early Retirement Incentive Programs for Teachers"
3. "Early Retirement Incentive Program"
4. "Early Retirement Incentive Program" (San Diego)
5. "Waiver Language Required Under the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act"
6. "Annotated Bibliography: Age Discrimination and Early Retirement"
7. "Early Out Option Coul Strain Pension Systems"
   

EDUCATIONAL REFORM

1. "Character Comback" (Sept 99)
2. "The Impact of School Starting Time on Family Life" - PDK Jan 99
3. "The Prickly Politics of School Starting Times" - Jan. 99
4. "Only For MY Kid" (Apr. 98)
5. "Images of Education" May 98
6. "The Future of Public Schools: A Public Discussion" Kappan (1997)
7. "The Hard Questions" Oct. 97
8. "School Reform and Community Relations" (1998)
9. "Finding Safety in Small Numbers" (Oct. 97)
10. "The State of Our Nation's Youth" (Horatio Alger Assn. of Distinguished Americans, Inc.) 1997-98
11. "Examining the Negative effects of Retention in our Schools (1996)"
12. "What's Right with American Education or What the Media and public Officials Failed to tell You"
13. "Analogical Reasoning and Giftedness: A Comparison Between Identifieed Gifted and Nonidentified" (1994)
14. "Creating America's New Public Schools: Not Tomorrow But Today" (1997)
15. "Multiage Misconceptions: Suggestions from Practice"
16. "Impediments to Reform: An Analysis of Destabilizing Issues in Ten Promising Programs"
17. "Productive Schools"
18. "School Size"
19. "World Class Schools"
20. "Reforms That Can Work"
21. "The Radical Idea of Neighborhood Schools"
22. "Roads to Reform"
23. "The Other Kind of Report Card: When Schools are Graded"

ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS

1. "Accuracy of Enrollment Forecasting Methods" (1997)
2. "Public School Divisions Fall Membership Projectons 1997-2001"(Virginia)
3. "1997-98 Fall Membership/Division Summaries by Ethnic Group-Virginia"
4. "Enrollment in Grades K-12: 1989-2007"
5. "You Say: We'll Be Ready for the Enrollment Boom" (1997)
6. "Impact of the Baby Boom Echo on U.S. Public School Enrollment" (1997)
7. "Teen Agers Show Largest In creases Over New Few Years" (1997)
8. "The Kids are Coming" - 1997
9. "Enrollment Trends: The Nation's 50 Largest School Districts" - 1996
10. "The Baby Boom Echo: Implications for School Enrollments and Programs" 1996
11. "Enrollment Projections" (Phi Delta Kappa)
12. "Accurate Projections of Enrollment Crucial to School Boards"
13. "Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by State 1994-95"
14. "Virginia's population: Changing Patterns of Growth" (June 1996)
15. "Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (1994) School Enrollment, With Projections"
16. "A Back to School Special Report: The Baby Boom Echo" (August 1996)
    
    

EQUITY

1. "Ranking the State in Equality of Funding of Public Education" (1997)
2. "Policies and Resolutions of the Virginia School Boards Association: January 1992"
3. "K-12 Education Funding in Tenn.: Equity Now - Adequacy Coming"
4. "The New Wave of School Finance Litigation"
5. "After the Victory: Making Funding Equity Make a Difference"
6. "School Financing Inequities Among the States: Problem From a National Perspective"
7. "Recent Developments in School Finance Equity and Educational Adequacy Cases"
8. "The Current Policy Debate in School Finance: Why Does It Matter?"
9. "School Finance Litigation: Legal Theories, Judicial Activism, and Social Neglect"
10. "A Multistate Analysis of School Finance Issues and Equity Trends in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan (1982-92)"
11. "School Finance: Many Questions, Elusive Solutions"
12. "The Shift From Equity to Adequacy in School Finance"
13. "An Assessment of Educational Spending Equity in Utah"
14. "The Kansas School District Equalization Act: A Study of Fiscal Equity of Funding Categories"
15. "School Finance: Equity Concerns in an Age of Reforms"
16. "Equalization and Impact Aid-National Leadership or Maintenance of Status Quo"
17. "Financial Equity in the Schools"
18. "Emerging Issues in State-Level School Finance"
19. "Brown vs. Board of Education"
20. "Trends in Education Equity: A Movement to the School Level"
21. "Financing Rural and Small Schools: Issues of Adequacy and Equity"
22. "Right Game, Wrong Field? The Pursuit of School Funding Equity"
23. "Homogeneous v. Heterogeneous: Is Tracking a Barrier to Equity?"
24. "School Based Finance: An Equity Solution for Urban Schools"
25. "The Conceptualization and Measurement of Equity in School Finance in Virginia"
    

FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT - Internet Information

1. "The Family and Medical Leave Act: Key Provision and Potential Problems"
2. "Intermittent Leave and Reduced Leave Schedule: Traps for the Unwary Under the Family and medical leave Act"
   
   

FAMILY AND SCHOOLS

1. "Family characteristics of 6-12 year-olds" NCES - Jan 2000
2. "Students Do Better When Their Fathers are Involved at School" (Apr. 98)
3. "Parent Support" Apr 98
4. "Parent Involvement in Children's Education: Efforts by Public Elementary Schools" Jan 98 (NCES)
5. "Family Involvement in Education" (Oct. 1997)
6. "Increasing and Tracking Parental Involvement"
7. "Student Performance and the Changing American Family" (Rand Study)
8. "Performance Assessment and Parents"
9. "Family Matters"
10. "First Generation Scholarships help the Whole Family"
11. "Recent Research on Mother:Child Attachment"
12. "Keep Schools Open Longer to Meet the Needs of Children and the Communities"
13. "Christian Coalition Presents the Contract With the American Family"
14. "Literacy and Their Children's Success in School: Recent Research, Promising Practices, and Research Implications"
15. "Social Statistics Briefing Room" (guide to Internet information)"
16. "Reaching Reluctant Parents"
17. "Parents and Schools: Partners in Student Learning"
18. "Types of Contact Between Parents and School Personnel"
19. "Parents and Schools: Parters in Student Learning: (1996)"
20. "The Parent Factor"
21. "Professional Development for Parents"
22. "Connecting Kids and Parents to School"
23. "Parents' Report of School Practices to Involve Families" (1996-NCES)
24. "NATIONAL Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs"
25. "Family Involvement in Education" (ERS Bulletin-1998)
    
    

GRANTS

1. "Challenge Grants for Technology in Education"
2. "The Black Hole of Block Grants"
3. "Grantmaker Information" (Internet)
4. "Grant-Seeking Buidelines: Funding School and District Restructuring Projects"
5. "Not for Profit Ed. Foundations" (survey-1999)
   

HOME SCHOOLING - Internet Information

1. NCES Report on Home Schooling (2001)
2. Home Schooling Info
3. "Michigan Electronic Library: Homeschooling"
4. "The Home Schooling Phenomenom: What are the implications for Ohio's school districts?" - Sept. 1997
5. "Home Schooling is Earning Higher Grades" (Aug. 97)
6. "Compulsory Attendance and Home Instruction Related Statutes"
7. "Home School Associations and Support Groups"
8. "Home Schooling"
9. "A Brief Statistial Analysis of Academic Achievement Test Data from Home Educated Students Operating Under the VA. Religious Exemption Statute" (Jan 94)
10. "Home But Not Alone"
11. "Bibliography of Home Schooling"
12. "Origins of Home Schooling"
13. "How Far Ca We Open the School Doors to Home School Students?"
14. "VSBA Policy: Admission of NONPUBLIC School Students"
15. "Home-Schoolers Take a Bit of Your Apple"
16. "Alaska Charter for Home-Schoolers Approved"
17. "Home Schooling: The In-House Alternative"
18. "Home Schooling"
    
    

HEALTH ISSUES

1. "A Study of School Health Exenditures for 1992-93" (Virginia Board of Ed.)
   
   
   

IMMIGRATION

1. "Psycholosocial Risks of Immigrant Students" (Nov. 1997)
2. "New Voices: Immigrant Students in U.S. Public Schools"
3. "Performance Improvement Report" 1993-94 District Results" (Cherry Creek Schools)
4. "ERS Bibliography: Immigrants and Achievement"
5. "The Pocked and Pitted Walls"
   

INTERNET

1. "Development of Student Acceptable Use Policies" NEA
2. "Educational Use of the Internet" (Jan 98) ERS
3. "The Use of Cable and the Internet/WWW in Elementary and Secondary Classrooms" (Sept. 1997)
4. "The Use of Cable and the Internet/WWW in Elementary and Secondary Classrooms" (July 1997)
5. "A Message to Parents About the Internet" (Nov. 97)
6. "On Surfing--and Steering--the 'Net: A Conversation w/Clifford Stoll" (Nov.96)
7. "The Internet: The Potential Liabilities of a Valuable Teaching Tool" (1997)
8. "School Officials Study Their Internet Liability"
9. "Are You Being Serv'd?: A Primer on Listservs for School Leaders"
10. "The Legal Challenges of Providing Internet Access at School"
11. "Answers to Commonly Asked Questions"
12. "Internet Basics"
13. "Internet for Language Teachers"
14. "You Can Do It! An Internet Success Story"
15. "Warning! Slippery Road Ahead: Internet Access and District Liability"
16. "An Introduction to Internet Resources for K-12 Educators"
17. "Ladue School District Internet Policy"
18. "Wenatchee School District Internet Policy"
19. "St. Clair School's Internet Policy"
20. "State Requirements for Indiana Public School Internet Acceptable use Policies and Guidelines"
21. "Taft Union High School Acceptable Use Internet Policy"
22. "Frontier Public School: Terms and Conditions for Use of the Internet:
23. "Redding School District Internet Policy and Guidelines"
24. "The Internet Advocate"
25. "It's Time Your Board Got Wired"
26. "The Internet and Schools: A Survey of Networking Activities"
27. "Bellingham Public Schools: Board Policy on Internet Use"
28. "Gresham-Barlow School District: Internet Access Policy"
29. "Internet use Concerns Schools"
30. "Decent Exposure: Should Schools Limit access to the Internet?"
31. "Schools That Are Using the Internet: Who are they?"
32. "Wireless Modem Lets Laptops Connect to Internet From Anywhere"
33. "Online World Creates New Parental Concerns"
34. "Kids on the Net Index"
35. "Bugs Bite New Browsers"
36. "Policing the INTERNET"
37. "Installing and Configuring Netscape Navigator Gold 2.01 for Use With Virginia's PEN"
38. "The Impact of the Internet on Learners and Schools"
39. "A Neo-Ludditge Reflects on the Internet"
40. "Caught in the Web of Online Advertising"
41. "INTERNET BASICS: Update 1996 - ERIC Digest"
42. "Distance Learning, the Internet, and the WWW"
43. "Majority of Schools Now Online" (E-Mail)
44. "Online Program Helps Students Control Violence" (E-Mail)
45. "E-Rate Leaves some Schools Behind" Aug. 98 (E-Mail)
46. "Internet Access in Public Schools"
    

LEGAL ISSUES

1. "Teacher Removal of Students from Class" (VSBA-April 24/98) (Email)
2. "Executive Meeting Procedural Requirements" (VSBA-April 27/98)
3. "School Officials and the Courts: Update 1998"
4. "The Debate Over Spanking" (Mar. 97)
5. "Privacy Rights Versus Safety: Should Juvenile Records be Open to Schools?"
6. "The Perils of Strip Searches" 1995
7. "School District Records: Board Member Access Rights"
8. "Affirmative Action"
9. "Search and Seizure"
10. "Free Speech"
11. "Age Discrimination in Employment Practices"
12. "The Family and Medical Leave Act"
13. "Sexual Harassment: What Your Staff Should Know"
14. "Overtime Compensation Under the FLSA: Pay Them Now or Pay Them Later"
15. "Free Speech Rights of Public School Employees"
16. "Modern-day Slavery?"
17. "Civil Rights Act of 1991"
18. "Computer Bulletin Boards: How to Minimize Your Liability"
19. "But Is It Legal"
20. "Student Sues in School TB Outbreak"
21. "State, Courts Take Up School Prayer"
22. "The Muddy Waters of Mainstreaming"
23. "Without Benefit of Judge or Jury"
24. "Special Grand Jury Report: Virginia Beach" 1996
25. "The Schools and the Courts" (Briefs of Selected Court Cases)
26. "School Safety and the Legal Rights of Students" (Email)

LEGISLATION

1. "Impact of Senate Appropriations Committee Action (1996)
2. "Contract with the American Family (Christian Coalition)
3. "Pesky Personnel Paperwork: Federal Reporting Requirements"
4. "Overtime Compensation Under the FLSA: Pay Them Now or Pay Them Later"
5. "Title I of ESEA"
6. "Virginia Freedom of Information Act"
7. "State and local Government Conflict of interests Act"
   
   

MIDDLE SCHOOLS

1. "Key Charactics of Middle School Level Schools" (1996)
2. "Home Visits to Middle-Schoolers" (Nov. 1997)
3. "What Works In Middle-Grades School Reform" (1997)
4. "Middle Schools: Turning Point for Pre-teens" (Fall - 1997)
5. "Parent Participation in Middle School Language Arts" 1996 - ERIC Digest
6. "A Middle Schools Maven Marks Their Progress" (Oct. 1997)
7. "Standards Based Reform-What Does It Mean for the Middle Grades?"
8. "Multicultural Education: A Middle School's Approach to Preparing Tomorrow's Leaders"
9. "Middle School Activities Programs: Helping Achieve Academic Success"
10. "Student Activities in the Middle School: What Do They Contribute?"
11. "Extracurricular Participation and Student Engagement"
12. "Moving from Interscholastics to Intramurals"
13. "An Intramural Program that Fits Middle School"
14. "Importance and implementation of Middle School Concepts: A Study of East Texas Middle School Principals"
15. "An Open Spots Program n the Middle School"
16. "It's Participation that Counts"
17. "All Must Play"
18. "What Makes a High-Achieving Middle School?"
19. "Academics and Athletics in the Social World of Junior High School Students"
20. "Bounding Back: Sports and Academic Resilience Among African-American Males"
21. "Who's Calling the Plays?"
22. "Guidelines for Athletic Programs in the Middle School"
23. "Learning for Life: Moral Education Theory and Practice"
24. "Exploration: The Total Curriculum"
25. "The Exemplary Middle School"
26. "Leadership in Middle Level Education"
27. "Pogrow's Next Act"
28. "Helping Students in the Middle"
29. ERS Bulletin - September 1996 "Middle School Status and Trends"
30. "Middle School Athletic Programs" (A bibliography)
31. "Remediating Middle School Students in Reading: Privatized vs. public School Efforts"
32. "Effects of Team Teaching on the Transition to Middle School"
33. "From Middle School to High School: Ease the Transition"
34. "From High School to Middle School: An Alternative School Program for Both"
35. "Middle Schools and Foreign Languages: A View for the Future" (ERIC)
36. "From Junior High to Middle School"
37. "The Impact of School Reform for the Middle Years"
38. "What Works in Middle-Grades School Reform"
    

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

1. "State Survey on Racial and Ethnic Classifications" NCES - Aug. 98
2. "Including Gays in Multiculturalism" (Jan. 1998)
3. "Valuing Diversity in the Multicultural Classroom"
4. "Multicultural Education: A Middle School's Approach to Preparing Tomorrow's Leaders"
5. "Multicultural Education: Looking Into the Changing Face of America's Classrooms"
6. "Multicultural/Multiethnic Studies Program"
7. "Multicultural Education in Elementary and Secondary Schools"

NETWORKING AND TECHNOLOGY

1. "How to Choose Learning Stations & Seating for Your Technology-Based Classroom Topics Discussed" May-98
2. "A Test of Leadership" 1997
3. "Partnering with the Public"1997
4. "Shopping for Technology" (Nov. 97)
5. "The Computer Doesn't Embarasse Me" (Nov. 97)
6. "Education Leadership Toolkit: A Desktop Compaion" (1997)
7. "Electronic Media and How Kids (Don't) Think" (Nov. 1997)
8. "The Next Step: Now that schools have technology, it's time to let the technology transform schooling" (199&)
9. "Bug Bytes Man: How Decades-old Computer Code Could Mess Up New Year's Day 2000" (1997)
10. "Educational Technology Trends, 1987-96"
11. "The Telecommunications Act of 1996: A guide for Educators"
12. "A Computerized Presentation Center" - May 1995
13. "Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments" - Nov. 1995
14. "Technology for Hiking Standardized Test Scores ( Oct. 1997)
15. "Schools in Line for Significant Discounts"
16. "Report on the Effectiveness of Technology in Schools (1990-94)"
17. "Connecting With Technology"
18. "Technology at the High School Library"
19. "Plugging Into the Net"
20. "Many School Computers are Outdated"
21. "Technology Utilization in Loudoun County Public Schools (Virginia)"
22. "U.S. Department of Education Technology initiatives"
23. "Innovative Use of Technology in Education"
24. "The Silicon Revolution"
25. "Internet Security: How to Foil Hackers and Crackers"
26. "Knowing Their Minds"
27. "Planning for Technology"
28. "Making Sense of New Technologies"
29. "High-Tech Harvest"
30. "Technology and Change"
31. "They're Faithful to the Mac"
32. "Net Surfers Becoming More Mainstream, Survey Shows"
33. "Understanding the Technologies of Our Learning Environment"
34. "NASSP Bulletin: Talking Technology: Where Do We GO FROM HERE?"
35. "Finding the Funds for Technology"
36. "Plugging In: The Changing Face of Technology"
37. "Can Online Communications Improve Student Performance? Results of a Controlled Study"
38. "Teach Teachers Technology Right In Their Schools"
39. "A Neo-Luddite Reflectsw on the Internet"
40. "Plan Ahead for Technology"
41. "Technology and the Liberal Arts"
42. "Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, FAll 1996" (report by NCES-Feb. 1997)
43. "10 Commandments to Implement Technology"
44. "Technology and Learning: The Research"
45. "Schools, Teachers, Students and Computers: a Cross-National Perspective."
    
    
    

    

NURSES (SCHOOL)

1. "The Future of School Nursing"
2. "Managing the School's Health Care"
3. "School Health Nursig Services: Exploring National issues and Priorities"
4. "School Nursing: Trends for the Future"
5. "School ursig Pracrice: Roles and Standards"
6. "The Role of the Nurse in the School Settig: A Historical perspective"
7. "Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services: A Role for the School Nurse"
8. "Closing the Lid on Pandora's Box"
9. "The School Nurse: Beyond the Band-Aids"
10. "School Health: Helping Children Learn"
11. "Can School Nurses be used Effectively as Health Educators in the School System?"
12. "A Finger on the pulse"

OUTCOME-BASED EDUCATION

1. "Realizing the Promise of Standards-Based Education" (Ed. Leadership-March 99) note: see Standardized Testing
2. "Can Performance-Based Assessments Improve Urban Schooling?"
3. "The Challenge of Outcome-Based Education"
4. "Pariah or Paragon? The Outcome-Based Education Debate"
5. "Outcome-Based Education"
6. "Outcomes-Based Outrage"
7. "What Will Outcome-Based Education Mean for Our Children?
8. "Success Is the Only Option in the La Joya ISD"
9. "In the Beginning"
10. "Outcome-Based Instruction in an Arizona High School District"
11. "A Radical Redefinition of Schooling"
12. "Defining the Differences Between Outcome-Based Education and Mastery learning"
13. "Outcome-Based Education: Can we Assume Continued Support?"
14. "Outcomes-Based Education Reexamined: From Structural Functionalism to poststructuralism"
15. "Outcome-Based Education and Curriculum Change: Advocacy, Practice, and Critique"
16. "Aiming for New Outcomes: The Promise and the Reality"
17. "Choosing Outcomes of Significance"
18. "Some Limitations of Outcome-Based Education"
19. "Outcome-Based Education: Another Educational Bandwagon?"
20. "Assessment in Outcome-Based Education"
21. "Fourteen Principles of Quality Outcomes-Based Education"
22. "One District's Journey to Success with Outcome-Based Education"
23. "A Powerful Tool for School Transformation"
24. "A Framework for Outcomes-Based Curricula"
25. "Outcome-Based Education: Can It Improve Standardized Test Scores?"
26. "Outcome-Based Education"
27. "The Controversy of Outcome Based Education"
28. "Sustaining Quality"
29. "Outcome-Based Education"
30. Outcome Based Education
    
    

PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE

1. "Careful Comparisons: Public and Private Schools in America" (Oct. 97)
2. "Teacher Professionalization and Teacher Commitment: A Multilevel Analysis" (1997)
3. "Schools ad Staffig in the U.S.: Selected Data for Public and Private Schools, 1993-94"
4. "How Different, How Similar" (1996)
5. The Condition of Education: "Public and Private Schools: How Do They Differ?" (1997)
6. "Careful Comparisons: Public and Private Schools in America" (Oct. 1997)
7. "Public and Private Schools: How Do They Differ" (1997)
8. "High Court Allows Public Teachers in Parochial Schools" (Aug. 97)
9. "Private School Survey"
10. "Private School Vouchers"
11. "Of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools"
12. "Why Private Schools are Rarely Worth the Money"
13. "Different Rules: Myth of Competition Between Public and Private Schools in Kansas"
14. 'Why Parents Choose Private Schooling: Implications for Public School Programs and Information Campaigns"
15. "Public vs. Private"
16. "Poll: Most Oppose Tax Support for Private Schools"
17. "Buyer Beware: Avoiding Privatization's Pitfalls"
    

PUBLIC RELATIONS

1. "31st Annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools" (1999)
2. "Case Studies in Public Engagement" (NSBA) Jan 2000
3. "Inexpensive Yet Effective Ways to Publicize Yours Schools"
4. "School Public Relations - When Hype Makes Right"
5. "Getting the Media on Our Side"
   

PRIVATIZATION OF SCHOOLS

1. "Policies and Privatization" Apr 98
2. "Private Options for Public Schools" (1995)
3. "Private Management of Public Schools: Early Experiences in 4 School Districts" (1996)
4. "Issues of Privatization: Private Management of Public Schools" (1994)
5. "Contracting for Educational Services" (Jan 96)
6. "Public Schools Go Private" (1993)
7. "The Continuing Question: Will Public Schools Make It in America?"
8. "Public Education and Private Enterprise" (1995)
9. "Why Privatization Signals a Sea Change in Schooling" (1996)
10. "Education Ltd." (1997)
11. "The Role of Private Sector Management in Public Education" (1994)
12. "A Leap of Faith: Hiring Business to Manage Public Schools" (1997)
13. "Lessons Learned: The Edison Project Founder's Musings on American Schooling" (Jan. 1997)
14. "The Battle of Wilkinsburg: One District's Efforts to Privatize" (1996)
15. "School Privatization: Is There a Future? (1996)
16. "Buyer Beware: State Controls Over Privatization" (1996)
17. "Lessons Learned: EAI and the Hartford Board of Education" (May 1996)
18. "Privatization and Urban Education" (1997)
19. "Public School, Inc." (1995)
20. "Legal Issues in Contracting out for Public Education Services" (1995)
21. "Privatization of Public Education: Theories and Concepts" (1995)
22. "Privatization in Public Schools" (1995)
23. "Baltimore Board Cuts Contract with EAI: can't afford private firm's services" (1997)
24. "Privatization of Public Education: What Do We Mean?"
25. "Lessons Learned: EAI and the Hartford Board of Education"
26. "Buyer Beware"
27. "The Benefits of Private Contractors: Four Case Studies"
28. "School Privatization: Is There a Future?"
29. "Two Views on Performance Contracting"
30. "The Privatization of Schooling: Problems and Possibilities"
31. "Privatization Found to Fall Short of Billing"
32. "Remediating Middle School Students in Reading: Privatized vs. public School Efforts"
    

RELIGION

1. "Keeping Religion out of the Classroom" August 99)
2. "High Court Lets Stand Ruling on Religious Uses of Public Schools" (Apr. 98)
3. "Should Schools Teach the Bible?" Apr. 98
4. "Bible Story" Apr. 98
5. "Public Schools Teach Bible as History", Jan 98
6. "Disputes Over Religion Still Plague Schools" - 1995
7. "Finding Common Ground: A Parent's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools"
8. "Religious Expression in Public Schools"
9. "Religion in the Public Schools: What Does the First Amendment Allow?"
10. "Background Readings and Information on the Congressional Hearings"
11. "Christian Coalition Presents the Contract With the American Family"
12. "Christian Coalition Offers Tips on Promoting Vouchers"
13. "Is Prayer the Answer?"
14. "Textbooks and Religion"
15. "To Pray or Not to Pray"
16. "Targets of the Right"
17. "Time for a Primer on Commencement Prayer"
18. "On Board the Bible Bus"
19. "Battling Over Local Control"
20. "Religion Rulings: Too Son to Say Amen"
21. "Sorting Out What Is and Isn't Religious"
22. "On Board the Bible Bus"
23. "School Prayer Becomes an Issue in Presidential Politics"
24. "Common Ground with the Religious Right"
25. "Student's Search for Religion Leads to Curb on 'Controversial' Sites" (E-Mail)
    

SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION

1. "School Contruction article" (1998)
2. "School Planning Construction and Management Report" (Aug 99)
3. "School Construction Cost and Design" (August 99)
4. "Creating Spaces" ITTE
5. "Blueprints for School Success: A Guide to New American Schools Design" (1998) (ERS)
6. "America's Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century" (95)
7. "Study: Overcrowding Reading Crisis in State's Alternative Schools" (Apr. 98)
8. "Are Your Bleachers a Resource or a Liability?" Jan 98
9. "School Ways: The Planning and Design of America's Schools" (1993)
10. "Schoolhousing: Planning and Designing Educatioal Facilities" (1994)
11. "Effective School Facilities: A Development Guidebook" (1995)
12. "Design-Build Manual of Practice" (1996)
13. "Questions on Program Charactgeristics" 9Dec. 97)
14. "1997 Construction Report" (Dec. 97)
15. "School Finance and the Condition of Schools (Spring 94)
16. "Keeping the Roof on Building Costs" (June 94)
17. "Finances and the Problems of America's School Buildings" (Nov. 94)
18. "Planning and Constructing School Facilities" (Feb. 96)
19. "Manage Construction In-House and Save Dollars" (May 96)
20. "Alternative Project Delivery Approaches for School Construction" (Nov.96)
21. "Alternative Project Delivery Approaches for School Construction" (1996)
22. "Is There a New School in Your Future" (1996)
23. "Scrap It or Rehab It"
24. "Roof Warranties: The Perils of Long-Term Promises"
25. "Making Wishes Come True: A Guide to Successful School Expansions"
26. "1994 Comprehensive School Cost Study (Virginia) by Moseley Management Svcs.
27. "Position Paper on State Funding of School Construction, Renovation. And Modernization"
28. (VSBA-1989)
29. "Deteriorating School Buildings: and the walls come a-tumblin' down"
30. "Design for Flexibility"
31. "1995-96 Update: School Facility Status Survey" (Virginia DOE)
32. "Virginia Literary Fund Information" (1995)
33. "Managing Construction: Who Looks Out for the School Board's Interest"
34. "Contracting with an Architect: Set the Rules Early"
35. "Hiring an Architect?":
36. "Construction Management: Wave of the Future?"
37. "Lost in Space: Assessing the Adequacy of School Facilities"
38. "Preschool Comes to School: Design Concerns of Preschool Facilities"
39. "Saving Through Sharing: The Shared Facilities Solution"
40. "The Future School: Designing for Student Success"
41. "School Facilities Planning - At the Crossroads of Change"
42. "Community Involvement"
43. "School Design"
44. "The Politics of a School Bond Issue"
45. "The Role of the Commonwealth in Financing School Construction"
46. "Contemporary Problems in School Board Construction Projects"
47. "Impact of Inadequate School Facilities on Student Learning" (E-Mail)

SCHOOL BOARDS

1. "Leading for Change" (Mar. 98)
2. "Getting There from Here: School Board-Superintendent Collaboration" (1997)
3. "Respecting A Review Process" (1996)
4. "Good Board - Bad Board" (1997)
5. "School Boards Turn to Groupware for Brainstorming" (1997)
6. "Virginia High School League Handbook 1997-98"
7. "Board Members in Training"
8. "Mandatory Training for School Board Members" - Sept. 97
9. "Do School Boards Still Have Options?"
10. "The Changing Role of School Boards"
11. "School Boards: Changing Local Control"
12. "Alternatives to School Boards: Do they measure up in our democracy?"
13. "Reinventing Local School Governance"
14. "Governing the Nation's Schools: The Case for Restructuring Local School Boards"
15. "A Changing Context Means School Board Reform"
16. "Policy Issues and Options When States Take Over Local School Districts"
17. "Antipolitics, Education, and institutional Choice: The Flight From Democracy"
18. "School Boards: The Missing Piece of the Reform Pie"
19. "A Brave New World: School Councils and Boards Do Battle"
20. "The Twin Engines of School Reform for the 1990s: The School Sites and National Coalitions"
21. "Examining the Evidence: Have States Reduced Local Control of Curriculum?"
22. "School Desegregation: The Role of the Courts and Means of Achievement"
23. "A 1985 Fairy Tale"
24. "Does More State Aid for Education make Local School Districts Obsolete?"
25. "The Changing Balance in State and Local Power to Control Education"
26. "Characteristics of Local School Boards: Selection Method and Taxing Authority"
27. "School Finance at a Flance"
28. "Taxing Authority for Elected School Boards - May 1996"
29. "Welcome to Eldertown"
30. "Handling the Schools to City Hall"
31. "A Motion to Reconsider: Education Governance at a Crossroads" Report of the NASBE Study Group on Education Governance"
32. "Where You Stand"
33. "Let the Sunshine In: Using e-mail for board business? Ceck open-meeting laws"
34. "Teachers' Working Conditions"
35. "Wages and Salaries Paid Support Personnel in Public Schools 1996-97"
36. "Scheduled Salaries for Professional Personnel in Public Schools 1996-97"
37. "Salaries Paid Professional Personnel in Public Schools 1996-97"
38. "1997 Virginia Freedom of Information Act" (1998)
39. "Board mentoring - get to know the students in your division" (Aug 98)
40. "Is Your School Board DYSFUNCTIONAL? " (AUG 98)

SCHOOL CHOICE

1. "initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in Washington DC and Dayton Ohio" (Oct. 98)
2. "The Case for School Choice: US/References" also avail on line
3. "School Choice" (1996)
4. "School Choice Works, Parents Say" (1996)
5. "School Choice: Where Do We Go From Here?

SCHOOL TO WORK TRANSITION

1. "What's Happening in School-to-Work Programs?" (ERIC Digest no 190) 1998)
2. "What Do You Want to Be? (American School Board) Nov. 98
3. "School to Work, Certificates of Mastery and Standards" (Apr. 98)
4. "School to Work Transition: Genuine Reform or the Latgest Fad?"
5. "School-to-Work Transition in the K-12 Classroom"
6. "Federal Initiatives Supporting School-toWork Transition"
7. "A Sampling of Electronic Resources on School-to-Work Transition"
8. "Selected School-to-Work Transition Resource Organizations"
9. "Selected School-to-work Transition Readings
10. "School to Work"
    

SEXUAL HARASSMENT

1. "An Ounce of Knowledge = A Pound of Deterrence: Preventing Sexual Harassment"
2. "Moral: Don't Ignore Harassment"
3. "Romance in the Workplace: Should Employers Act as Chaperons?"
4. "Employer Liability for the Sexually Harassing Actions of Its Customers"
5. "Sexual Harassment: What Your Staff Should Know"
6. "The Hidden Hurt"
7. "Sexual Harassment: Is the Standard for Reasonable Care Reasonable" (Aug 98)
   
   

SCHOOL VIOLENCE

1. "Order in the Classroom-Violence, Discipline, and Student Achievement"-Policy Information Center- Oct. 98
2. "Classroom Management and Discipline" KDP - Fall 98
3. "Critical Issues-School Safety" Spring 96 (SC School Boards Assn)
4. "Keeping Guns Out of Your School" Va. Journal of Ed-Oct. 98
5. "Schools Should be Safe-But Are They?" (Apr. 98)
6. "Ten Steps to Safer Schools" (Mar. 98)
7. "Study Finds Violece is Prevalent in Children's TV Shows" (Apr. 98)
8. "Bullying in Schools" (ERIC Digest - Apr 97) (EMAIL)
9. "Dealing With Drugs and Weapons in School" (29th Gallup Poll) (Mar. 98)
10. "More Teens Report Seeing Gangs in School" (Apr. 98)
11. "Bullying in Schools" (Apr. 97)_
12. "Status of Data on Crime and Violence in Schools: Final Report" (NCES-1997)
13. "Student Victimization at School" (1995) (NCES)
14. "School Violence Needs More than a New Suit"
15. "Schools and Violence: Fact sheet"
16. "Violence and the Public Schools"
17. "Student Victgimization at School"
18. "A Date With Violence"
19. "How to Make School Safe"
20. "Background Checks on School Personnel"
21. "School Violence Prevention"
22. "The Violence Within: Are Schools Safe?" 1995 National Survey
23. "Violence in the Schools" (Teacher Talk)
24. "White Paper onYouth, Violence, The Schools, and the County Toward a Comprehensive Long-Term Approach"
25. "The Violence Within: Are School Safe?" (1995 National Survey)
26. "Personalization: Working to Curb Violence in an American High School"
27. "Elements of an Effective Discipline Strategy"
28. "40 Ways to Safer Schools"
29. "Who are the Victims of School Violence? A Comparison of Student Non-Victims and Multi-Victims"
30. "Student-on-Student Assault: What You Need to Know About Peer Violence"
31. "How to Keep Your Schools Safe and Secure"
32. "Search and Seizure: What Your School's Rights Are"
33. "Tougher Disciline, Safer Schools"
34. "Eager Educators Get Hard Sell for Security Gadgetry"
35. "Preventig Youth Violence"
36. "Use of Time-out and Seizure Under the Fourth Amendment
37. "School Violence": (Internet)
38. "Schools Should be Safe, But are they?" (Email)
39. "School Based Programs to Promote Safety and Civility" (Spring 1998-AEL)
40. "School Safety and the Legal Rights of Students" (Email)
41. "School Crime and Violence Summary" (1997-NCES)
42. "School Crime and Violence Summary: (1998-NCES)
43. "National School Safety Center Publications and Products" (1998)
44. "When Rules Outrank Reason/Innocent Victims of Zero Tolerence" (1998-NASS)
45. "Student Makes Case Against Mandatory School Drug Testing" (Feb. 97)
46. "Understanding Violent Behavior in Children and Adolescents" (1996)
47. "Students Report of School Crime and Violence: 1989 and 1995" (US Dept. of Justice/NCES)
48. "Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools" (1998-ERS)
49. " RESPONDING TO YOUTH VIOLENCE: PROGRAMS THAT WORK" (1998) (Email)
50. "High Risk Behavior in Virginia Schools: A Department of Education Report" (1998)
51. "Online Program Helps students Control Violence"(E-Mail)
52. "Measures for a Safe School" (June 98) (E-Mail)
53. "Early Warning, Tmely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools" (Aug 98)
    

SCHOOL UNIFORMS

1. "School Uniforms Increasingly in Fashion" (Oct. 98)
2. "School Uniforms: Why and How" (1998)
3. "Dressed to LEARN" (Apr. 98)
4. "NY School Board Votes for Uniforms" 1998
5. "Do the Clothes Make the Student?" Some Pros and Cons of School Uniforms - 1997
6. "Manual on School Uniforms"
7. "Student Uniforms Bring the Focus Back on Instruction: No More 'Sag Baggin'"
8. "Student Uniforms - How Well Do They Wear?
9. "Uniform Improvement"
10. "Schools Tell Kids What to Wear...?
11. "Individuality vs. Conformity: The Issue Behind School Uniforms"
12. "Do They Reduce Violence -- Or Just Make us Feel Better?"
13. School Uniforms (Internet)
    

SITE-BASED MANAGEMENT

1. "Site-Based Decision Making" (Internet Site) (also available in hard copy from VSBA)
2. "Support Staff's Views on Sitge-Based Management"
3. "School-Based Management: Promise and Process"
4. "School-Based Management: Strategies for Success"
5. "Decentralization: Why, How, and Toward What Ends?"
6. "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Site-Based Management - But Were Afraid to Ask"
7. "How Decentralization Works"
8. "Site-Based Management and Decision-Making (17 minute video)
9. "Site-Based Management and the School Business Administrator"
10. "School Based Management and Student Performance"
11. "School-Based Management: What Is It?"
12. "Site-Based Management?"
13. "What is the Most Effective Structure? Site Based Budgeting is Best"
14. "One Step at a Time: SBM as an Incremental Process"
15. "Learning From Mistakes - Successfully Implementing SBM"
16. "Key Issues in Effective Site-Based Management"
17. "Site-Based Budgeting: A Critical Factor in the Success of Decentralized School Management"
18. "Site-Based Management: The Advantages of Lump-Sum Transfers"
19. "Who Will Fix the Roof? Site-Based Maintenance Programs"
20. "From Power to Persuasion: The Business Official's Role in Site-Based Decision-Making"
21. "Teachers Tackle Budgeting: Site-Based Budgeting at Work"
22. "School-Based Management: Taking Stock"
23. "Share the Power"
24. "Trransferring Decisionmaking to Local Schools"
25. "How One Board Implemented Site-Based Budgeting"
26. "Five Guidelines for A Successful Site-Based Administrator to Follow"
27. "Study: Site Management Has No Effect On Scores"
    

SPECIAL EDUCATION

1. "Push and Pull of Standards-Based Reform: How Does It Affect Local School Districts ad Students with Disabilities" (Oct. 96)
2. "1994 Update on Inclusion in Education of Children with Mental Retardation"
3. "Inclusion: HAS IT GONE TOO FAR"
4. "Special Ed Kids in Private Schools: Who Pays" Oct. 1997
5. "Classroom Teachers' Perceptions of the Implementation and Effects of Full Inclusion"
6. "The Inclusion Revolution"
7. "Barrier Free School Facilities for Handicapped Students"
8. "Does Inclusion Cost More?"
9. "Special and General Education Enrollment Trends (1987-93)"
10. "Separate and Unequal: How Sp. Ed. Programs Are Cheating Our Children and Costing Taxpayers Billions Each Year"
11. "Discipline and the Law"
12. "Including Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms: From Policy to Practice"
13. "Inclusion and the individuials with Disabilities Education Act"
14. "Inclusion: It's Not All Academics"
15. "Inclusion Education in Practice"
16. "Putting It All Together: An Action Plan"
17. "Inclusion Isn't All Academic"
18. "Testing Students with Disabilities" (ERIC)
    
    

STANDARDIZED TESTS

1. "VA.'s 25 top Improving Puiblic Schools on the Spring 99 SOL Tests."
2. "Realizing the Promise of Standards-Based Education" (Ed. Leadership-March 99)
3. "Virginia's Version of Excellence" (Mar 98)
4. "Scholastic Assessment Test - Score Averages, by State: 1974-94"
5. "Regulations Establishing Standards for Accrediting Public Schools in Virginia" (1997)
6. "Summary of SAT Results for 1997 (VSBA)"
7. "More Minorities Taking SAT, but Scores Still Lagging"
8. "What Do Test Scores Measure?"
9. "Third International Mathematics and Science Study:"
10. "Performance Assessment"
11. "None of the Above"
12. "Building Confidence in Public Education"
13. "Student Assessment"
14. "Trends in Standardized Testing: Nationwide Assessment, Not a National Test"
15. "School by School Test Score Comparisons: Statistical Issues and Pitfalls"
16. "Testing, Testing"
17. "New Assessments Have Little Effect on Content"
18. "The Scores Are Falling"
19. "The Structure of Success in America"
20. "Perspectives on Education in America"
21. "None of the Above"
22. "A Profileof SAT Program Test Takers" (1996-National Report)
23. "College Board Reports Continuing Upward Trend in Average Scors on SAT I"
24. "Changes in the SAT in 1994"
25. "Advanced Placement, SAT Scores and Participation Rising"
26. "1995 - SAT Scores"
27. "1993 - SAT Scores"
28. "1994 - SAT Scores"
29. "Guidelines on the Uses of College Board Test Scores and Related Data"
30. "Report on the Results of the Summer 1996 Administration of the Literacy Passort Test and on Students NOT Graduating Based on Their LPT Status"
31. "Iowa Test of Basic Skills" (A Bibliography)
32. "New Mexico's SIMSE Year Three Evaluation (ITBS Test Scores)"
33. "Report Card on the Quality of Education in Virginia"
34. Third International Mathematics and Science Study and Initial Findings from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study
35. Reading Literacy Studies
36. "Public Elementary and Secondary Education Statistics: School Year 1997-98"
37. "The trouble with Ranking" (June 98)

STAFFING PATTERNS/SALARIES/EVALUATION

1. Privacy Issues in Education Staff Records (Need Acrobat Reader)
2. "Predicting the Need for Newly Hired Teachers in the US to 2008-09" (NCES)
3. "Don't neglect thorough background checks when hiring employees" (School Bd. News) Nov. 99
4. "Countering Myths About School Administration" - ERS - Nov. 98
5. "School Administration Under Attack: What are the Facts" - ERS1998
6. "Salaries of Professional and Support Personnel in Public Schools, 1997-98" (1998)
7. "'Should Nots' for School Principals" (Winter 1998)
8. "Sample Letters of Notice: Nonrenewal and Reassignment" (Mar. 98)
9. "Critiquing the CEO" (Feb. 98)
10. "Taking Teachers' Measure" (Feb. 98)
11. "Baltimore to Grade Educators" Feb. 98
12. "Why Principals Fail: Are National Professional Standards Valid Measures of Principal Performance?" (1997)
13. "America's Teachers: Status and Opinions" (Oct. 1997)
14. "Schools and Staffing in the U.S.: Selected Data for Public and private Schools (1993-94)"
15. "Show Us the Money" (1997)
16. "We Ask: Is Your Superintendent's Salary Linked to Test Scores?" (1997)
17. "What Types of Schools Have the Highest Teacher Turnover?" (1995)
18. "Shine a Light on your Employees' Past" - 1995
19. "The Status of Performance Evaluations for Indiana School Superintendents" - 1997
20. "Reinventing Teacher Compensation Systems"
21. "How Financial Restraints Affect Staffing Patterns in Large and Medium-Sized School Districts"
22. "Rightsizing the Right Way"
23. "Trends in Teacher Salaries and Staffing Ratios in Large School Districts"
24. "Administrators/Student Ratios in Large School Districts"
25. "Base Central Office Staffing Levels on Facts"
26. "A Study of New Jersey Staffing Practices" (Report to the State Board of Ed.)
27. "Staffing the Central Office" (Virginia Assoc. of School Executives publications - 1978)
28. "Measuring Changes in Salaries and Wages in Public Schools: 1996"
29. "Salaries Paid Principals and Assistant Principals - 1995-96"
30. "School Staffing Ratios, 1995-96"
31. "How is Merit Pay Assessed"
32. "What is Differential Staffing"
33. "Staffing Patterns in public School Districts: Data on Current Status and Trends" (1995-96)
34. "The Patterns of Teacher Compensation"
35. "1996 Superintendent Salary/Benefits Survey" (VSBA)
36. "Salaries for School Business Officials (1995-96)"
37. "The Portfolio Approach to Administrator Appraisal"
38. "Reflecting on Performance"
39. "How Best to Evaluate Principals?"
40. "How Do You Evaluate Instructional Leadership?"
41. "Tie Evauation to Improvements"
42. "Poor Leaders Can't Hide Behind Tenure"
43. "School Board Evaluations Carry Many Benefits"
44. "When It's Time to Dismiss an Incompetent Teacher"
45. "Managing Mediocrity in the Classroom"
46. "Tenure, Promotion, and Reappointment: Legal and Administrative Implications
47. "Chuck the Checklist"
48. "Salaries for School Business Officials: 1995-96"
49. "Measuring Changes in Salaries and Wages in Public Schools" (1997 ERS)
50. "School Staffing Ratios, 1996-97" (ERS)
51. "Reforming the Teachers' Unions" (May 1998)
52. "School Staffing Ratios - 97-98" (ERS)
53. "Tenured Principals: An Endangered Species" Jun 98 (E-Mail)
54. "Measuring Changes in Salaries and Wages in Public Schools" (1998) ERS
    

STUDENT PERFORMANCE

1. "The Ninth Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education" (1999)
2. "Effects of School Calendars on Student Achievement and Retention" (Jan 2000)
3. "Are U.S. Students Behind?" (Bracey) 98
4. "The Seventh Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education" (1997)
5. "Student Mobility, Academic Performance, and School Accountability" (Winter 1998)
6. "Effects of Delaying or Repeating Kindergarten", Mar 98
7. "Foolishness, Dangerous Nonsense, ad Real Correlates of State Differences in Achievement", (Sept 97)
8. "Educational Progress of Black Students" NCES-MAY 95
9. "What Works" (Apr. 98)
10. "What It will Take to Raise Student Achievement" (1997)
11. "Virginia Education Report Card" (Oct. 1996)
12. "What Happens Between Assessments?" (Dec. 96)
13. "Virginia Graduates and the Standard Diploma" (numbers) 1995-96
14. "Delayed Enrollment Has Little Benefit" (1995)
15. "Does 'Reading Recovery' Work? (1997)
16. "Gender Differences in Test Performance"
17. "Classroom Grading: A National Survey of Policies" (1994)
18. "When Everyone Gets an A, Grades are Meaningless" (1997)
19. "Children in Motion: School Transfers and Elementary School Performance" (1996)
20. "The Seventh Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education"
21. "The Sixth Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education"
22. "Foolishness, Dangerous Nonesense, ad Real Correlates of State Differences in Achievement"
23. "Measuring Up: Virginia Students, schools to be graded in SOL ASSESSMENT "
24. "A Strong Showing for U.S. Students" (Aug. 1997)
25. "Student Interest in National News and Its Relation to School Courses"
26. "Are Kids 'Tested to Death?' - Oct 1997
27. "Good Study Habits and Academic Performance: Findings From the NAEP 1994 U.S. History and Geography Assessments" NAEP Facts
28. "Reading Assessment in the Nation's Fourth-and Eighth-Grade Classrooms" NAEP Facts
29. "What Do We Know About Declining (or Rising) Student Achievement?"
30. "Ability Grouping in Elementary Schools"
31. "Does Ability Grouping Help or Hurt?"
32. "Is Ability Grouping the Way to Gi?
33. "Bumps and Bruises: Challenges to Implementing Performance Assessments in the Classroom"
34. "Meeting Goal 3: How Well Are We Doing?"
35. "Grown Up, But Still at Risk: A Follow-up Study of 14 At-Risk High School Students"
36. "A Nation At Risk"
37. "Student Performance and the Changing American Family"
38. "SAT Scores Rise for Black Students Especially"
39. "Test Score Turnaround"
40. "Turnaround at Canton Middle School"
41. "Trounce the Competition"
42. "The Texas Ranger of Testing"
43. "Ahead of the Curve""Literacy Testing Program, State of Virginia, Fall 1993 (Data from each school division)
44. "Virginia State Assessment Program for 1994-95 (grades 4, 8, and 11)
45. "Reporting Children's Development - The Narrative Report"
46. "Toward Better Report Cards"
47. "Implementing a New Elementary Progress Report"
48. "Kindergarten Report Cards: A New Look"
49. "The Daily Report Card"
50. "Restructuring: A View from the Trenches"
51. "Reporting Pupil Progress"
52. "Communicating Student Learning"
53. "Examples of School District Policy and Procedure Statements on Assessing and Grading"
54. "Report Card Examples"
55. "Educational Excellence Across the Commonwealth: Initiatives to Improve Student Performance"
56. "NCREL Monograph: Raising Expectations to Improve Student Learning"
57. "NAEP 1994 4th Grade Reading Factors" (chart)
58. "Portfolio Based Assessment"
59. "SAT Tests Edge Upward"
60. "Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994"
61. "Report on the Results of the Summer 1996 Administration of the Literacy Passort Test and on Students NOT Graduating Based on Their LPT Status"
62. "College Board Reports Continuing Trend in Average Scores on SAT I" (August 22, 1996)
63. "High School Graduation Standards: What We Expect and What We Get"
64. "NAEP 1994 U.S. History Report Card"
65. "The National Education Goals Report: Executive Summary"
66. "Standards and Regulatons for Public Schools in Virginia" (July 1, 1996)
67. "Determinants of Underachievement as Perceived by Gifted, Above-Average, and Average Black Students"
68. "Can Online Communications Improve Student Performance? Results of a Controlled Study"
69. "About Droupout and Completion Rates" (1998)
    

SURVEYS

1. "Finance Committee Survey (Virginia Public Schools[July -1997)"
2. "VSBA 1995 Member Opinion Survey"
3. "Oregon School Boards Association Survey Research Report (1995)"
4. "South Dakota Assessment of ASBSD Service - 1995"
5. "Parental Satisfaction With Schools and the Need for Standards" (1992)
6. "1995 Virginia Superintendents Salary Survey - VSBA"
7. "The Violence Within: Are School Safe?" (1995 National Survey)
8. "1995-96 Update: School Facility Status Survey" (Virginia DOE)
9. "Values and the Schools: 60 years ago and now"
10. "VSBA Drug & Alcohol Testing Survey Results"
    
    

TEACHER EVALUATION

1. "In Push for Accoutability, Tenure Becomes a Target"
2. "UCLA's Center for the Study of Evaluation" (CRESST)
3. "Raising Teacher Performance by Improving Teacher Evaluation:Guilford County's Project H.E.L.P."
4. "Texas Proposal Ties Teacher Performance to School Scores"

TRANSPORTATION

1. "Who's Driving This Bus Anyway"
2. "In Your Drivers' Hands"
3. "Picking the Lesser Evil: Reducing Transportation Services"
4. "School Bus Driver Requirements"
5. "Salaries of School Bus Drivers"
6. "Federally Mandated Testing of Bus Drivers"
7. "Issues in Public Transportation"
8. "Bus Dirver: Position Description"
9. "Wages and Salaries Piad Support Personnel in Public Schools in 1995-96"
10. "Des Moines School District: Transportation Program Evaluation Report - 1995"
11. "Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Central School: Bus Driver's Handb ook"
12. "Making Schools Work: Practical Management of Support Operationws"
13. "Puttng Drivers to the Test"
14. "In Your Drivers' Hands"
15. "Monitoring for Safety"
16. "Random Drug Tests: What are the costs?"
17. "Wages and Salaries Paid Suppot Personnel in Public Schools (1995-96)"
18. "Drug Testing for Professional Drivers: It's the Law"
19. "Contracting for Services: An Imperative for Schools"
    
    

URBAN EDUCATION

1. "Hope for Urban Education:A Study of Nine High-Performing, High-Poverty Urban Elementary Schools" 1999
2. "Enhancing Urban Student Achievement Through Multi-Year Assignment and Family-Oriented School Practices" - 1997
3. "NCES Looks at urban Schools and the Challenges of Location and Poverty" (August 1996)
4. "NCES Looks at Urban Schools andthe Challenges of Location and Poverty"
5. "Reinventing Urban Public Education"
6. "Opportuity to Learn Standards: Their Impact on Urban Students"
7. "Keep Community 'Real' for Urban School Success"
8. "Year-Round Urban School Makes News"

VOUCHERS

1. "The Voucher Threat" 1999
2. "School Vouchers" (1999)
3. "A Liberal cause for Vouchers" (1999)
4. "Little evidence Vouchers take best students from public schools" (July. 99)
5. "Voucher System falls Far Short of Goals" (Dec. 99)
6. "The Voucher Virus" Dec. 98 (Alabama School Boards)
7. "Vouchers for Good an Ill" (Apr. 98)
8. "School Vouchers: Panacea or Pandora's Box" (1996)
9. "Vouchers' First Test Doesn't Prove Theory" (Sept. 1997)
10. "Voucher Issue Divides Blacks" Oct. 1997 - USA Today
11. "GOP Gets More Aggressive in Campaign for School Vouchers" (Oct. 1997)
12. "Academic Gains from Charters and Vouchers Debated"
13. "Who Gains, Who Loses From School Choice: A Research Survey"
14. "Crafting a Court-proof Education Voucher"
15. "Vouchers Bring New Options to Cleveland"
16. "Private School Vouchers" (ERS Bulletin)
17. "N.J. District Proposes Vouchers for High Schooler"
18. "The Voucher Debate: Should Public Money Follow Kids to Private Schools?"
19. "Judge Rules Against Milwaukee Voucher Program"
20. President Clinton: "Brief Analysis No. 266" (May 1998)
21. On-Line Articles
22. "A Case for Vouchers" (E-Mail)
23.  School Vouchers

VSBA

1. "Mission"
2. "VSBA Drug & Alcohol Testing Survey Results"
3. "1997 Showcases of Sucess"
4. "1998 LEGISLATIVE Summary"

WORKERS' COMPENSATION - Internet Information

1. "Chomping Down on Workers' Comp"
2. "Working Under a Dangerous Shadow"
3. "Managing Workers' Compensation Medical Costs: A State-by State Guide"
4. "Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Workers' Compensation: A Call for Discussion"
5. "Back from the Brink: Controlling Workers' Compensation Costs"
6. "Workers' Comp. For Employers: How to Cut Claims, Reduce Premiums, and Stay Out of Trouble"
   
   

YEAR-ROUND EDUCATION - Internet Information

1. "Opposition to Year-Round Schools"
2. "Specializing in Time and learning" Nov. 97
3. "Year-Round Education (AskERIC InfoGuide)"
4. "Year-Round Fun (various articles in the Summer 1995 "Tennessee School Boards Journal"
5. "Year-Round Education: Is there a better way"
6. "Year-Round Education: Florida Principals' Perspectives"
7. "A School for All Seasons"
8. "Year-Round Schooling Really Works"
9. "National Association for Year-Round Education" (Internet)
   
   

YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE

1. "Bug Could Have Far-Reaching Effects" (Apr. 98)
2. "Getting in Gear for the Year 2000" (May 1998) Available from our web site.
3. "Year 2000 Problem Draws Nearer" (Jan 98) ((EMAIL)
4. "Year 2000: Prevent the Panic Now" (Nov. 97) (EMAIL)
5. "Year 2000.com Launches New Online Law Center" (Nov. 97)
6. "Beat the Millennium Bug or Everyone Catches a Cold" (Mar. 98)
7. "Work to Resolve Year 2000 Problems Stepped Up" (Nov. 97)
8. "Swatting the Y2K Bug (Nov. 97) (EMAIL)
9. "Wires Will be Crossed on New Year's 2000" (Nov. 97)
10. "Millenium Bug May Trigger Traffic Gridlock" (Feb. 98)
11. "Time is Running Out for 75 Million Computer Clocks" (Jan. 98)
12. "Washington D.C. Year 2000 Group Survey Results" (May 1998) Available from our web site
13. "Deadline Nears for Year 2000 Computer Bug" (Ed. Week. April /98)
14. "Year 2000 Compliance"
15. "Is Your District Ready for Y2K?" (1998)"
16. "Will Your Schools' Computer Systems be Ready for January 1, 2000?"
17. "Computer Problems Similar to the Millennium Bug That Have Already Happened" (June 1, 1998) (Email)
18. "Waiting until 1998 to address the Y2K problem is not wise or cost-effective." (email)
19. "Embedded Systems: Analyst's Take" (E-mail)
20. "What You Should be Doing About the Year 2000 Bug" (Email)
21. "Y2K and Transportation Systems" (Email)
22. "Y2K and the Powere Grid? (Email)
23. "Y2K and telecommunications" (Email)
24. "Y2K and Personal Survival" v
25. "It's a People Problem ( (Email)
26. "Embedded System Land Mines" (Email)
27. "The Year 2000 Bug: Legal Issues" (E-Mail)
28. "Partware there on tackling Year 2000 Bug" (E-Mail)