Daily Archives: March 10, 2012

Massive Resistance to NCLB

Fowler (2009) describes why some policies are unpopular in Chapter 10 of her text, Policy Studies for Educational Leaders: An Introduction (3rd ed). She asserts that self interest and professional values are two significant reasons why educators are li… Read more »

Reflections

The law says…

Colleagues often begin statements with “The law says” or “It’s against the law to”.  Often these statements aren’t accurate.  The most common true meaning I find for these statements can be best interpreted as “if you do this, we may be increasing our civil liability”, which is quite different than citing statutory or case law. [...] Read more »

EDLP 704 Frameworks for Decision Making: Legal Perspectives