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May 2010 (vol. 39, no. 3)
SPECIAL AWARDS ISSUE
"It's important to have a willingness to be involved in discovery...participate rather than plan. Think creatively, be brave, and embrace progressive thinking. This is the time for change..." 
 -- STACY DECORSEY, 2009 NATIONAL DISTINGUISHED PRINCIPAL

December 2010 (vol. 39, no. 2)
"We have Achievement Gap 1: between economically-disadvantaged students and their more-affluent peers. We have Achievement Gap 2: between what our very best schools are doing and what's necessary for success in a technology-suffused, globally-interconnected era. The second gap is larger than the first, and yet, we're hardly paying attention to it."

--SCOTT MC LEOD, J.D. PH.D.

September 2010 (vol. 39, no. 1)
“Systemic Racism is the most devastating factor contributing to the diminished capacity of all children…and leads to the fracturing of the communities that nurture and support them.”
PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL GROUP




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