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CLEARANCE Factual Compendium By Gosh, N. and Golly, G. This is the exhaustive guide to littleknown facts in every curriculum area, including language arts (e.g., the derivation of “quick as a wink”: the spotted wink is an Australian rodent that runs extraordinarily fast) and social studies (e.g., Storrs, Connecticut, is noted for not being in Massachusetts). Teach your staﬀ to intimidate others intellectually. I.R. Relevant Resources Aztec Charter Magnet Schools This educational movement sadly never got oﬀ the ground. As a result, back issues of the ACMS Update can be purchased at rock-bottom prices. Order the complete set and get the complimentary monograph Implications of Jungle Ruins for American Education. Wrong Age Distributors Charting New Courses Send us your grade-level curriculum outline and we will prepare intricate scope and sequence charts guaranteed to bewilder. No school evaluation team would ever dare to question the complex boxes, lines, arrows and tables that deﬁne what you say you do educationally. Off-Our-Back Services Here is Dyrli’s end-of-the-summer boondoggle of products and services that never caught on. My-Problem Space Identify your most diﬃcult students and three worst habits for each, and we will design Web pages that make antisocial behaviors known to all. The inhibiting guilt of online notoriety will minimize discipline problems magically. Educational Convictions Biodegradable Art No longer burden families with art projects that last a lifetime. Instead, use creativity materials that start to disintegrate even before they leave the school. Composting ideas from soap to nuts are included in every order. Dust-2-Dust Creations Runaway Inﬂation Conversion Tables Update your proverbial math curriculum. Did you know, for instance, that thoughts are now valued at two pennies, a bird in the hand is worth four in the bush, and a stitch in time saves less than ﬁve? Have a twoderful time upgrading your content! Ryson B. Counted School Products Critic Conﬁdential Here are never-before-told scandalous secrets on education critics who bring misery to our professional lives. Identify the troublesome people knocking on your district doors, and we’ll supply innuendos that stop the attacks fast. Right-to-Fight Associates Industrial Comics Publisher of the beloved instructional classics Story of Coal-tar and Strip-Mining for You announces its new illustrated titles: Choosing Brick and The Wonder of Meat-Packing. CurriCartoons Inc. Odvard Egil Dyrli, gdyrli@edmediagroup .com, is editor-in-chief of DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION and emeritus professor of education at the University of Connecticut. August 2007 57 Greater Issues of Our Times Discover the utility of newspapers in education through predated materials that come whole or in ripped-to-order strips. Applications include cleaning paint brushes, training puppies and making boat hats for parties. Pulp Learning LLC www.DistrictAdministration.com http://www.DistrictAdministration.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - August 2007

Contents
Editor’s Letter
Letters
News Update
Technology Update
Curriculum Update
Inside the Law
Research Corner
Computer Literature
District Profile
Administrator Profile
Bus Money
DIBELS Draws Doers & Doubters
Report from EduComm 2007
Ins and Outs of Outsourcing
Curriculum Clearance
How Well Does This Web Site Work?
New Products
Problem Solution
Online Edge
Speaking Out
Professional Opinion
Calendar of Events
Understanding the Times

District Administration - August 2007