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NAESP is the unified voice of over 30,000 K-8 leaders across the U.S. and around the world.

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• NEW! 2008 Leading Learning Communities, Second Edition. Updated and expanded! Download the Executive Summary.

• NEW! Vision 2021: Transformations in Leading, Learning and Community.

NAESP announces winners of the NAESP/Met Life Sharing the Dream Grant.

News

District defends policy eSchool News (9/18), The decision by a rural, one-school Texas district to allow employees to carry concealed handguns has reopened a heated debate about the appropriateness of guns on school campuses--and it has some school safety experts ...

City to Give $14.2 Million in Bonuses to Teachers at Schools With Improved Report Cards
New York Times (9/18), Teachers at 89 elementary and middle schools will receive bonuses of several thousand dollars each...

Overhaul for schools
baltimoresun.com (9/19), Maryland education officials are pushing failing schools to replace their principals and teaching staffs, according to a report released today by a Washington-based nonprofit research group.

Gym classes ditch dodgeball for technology
Pennsylvania's Tribune-Review (9/18) reports "Gone are the days of calisthenics and dodgeball. Today's physical education classes are filled with technology and outdoors activities, designed to start fitness habits early."

Nevada schools stand up to bullies
The Las Vegas Sun (9/19) editorializes that bullying is prevalent in schools "and, thanks to the Internet and cell phones, [it] has taken on a whole new dimension. ...

Educators Eye Exposure to U.S. Financial Turmoil
Education Week (9-18),School business officials kept a close watch on the financial markets this week—and on district investment portfolios and teacher-retirement funds—as stock prices tumbled and once-sound institutions got government bailouts or crumbled into bankruptcy.

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