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Volume 5, Number 2 (1994) - Divergent Views on the Control of Schools: An Iowa Dialogue

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Complete Monograph

Divergent Views on the Control of Schools: An Iowa Dialogue [complete monograph]

Front Matter

Cover - Front Matter - Table of Contents

Introduction

Executive Summary
Dave Else

Issue Area One

Issue Area One: The Current Debate in Public Education: Whose Children? Whose Schools?
Jan Reinicke and Wayne Wolf

Parental Authority Versus Government Ownership of Education
Jill M. Carlson

American Education Enters Era of Federalized, Socialistic Education
Harley G. Feldick

Family v. School: A Custody Battle that Clobbers Kids
Marshall Fritz

If Not Now, When? If Not Me, Who?
Robert J. Gilchrist

Upholding Parents' Ultimate Responsibility for Children's Education
Cindy Joens

Whose Children? Whose Schools?
James L. Kelly

Christianity: Core of Colonial and Present Education
Larry Miller

Parental and Community Responsibility Can Help Nurture, Prepare Children
Pat Shipley

Understanding Society's Process of Change
Thomas Wells

Issue Area Two

Issue Area Two: The Teaching of Values in the Public Schools: Which Values? Whose Values?
Sam Warren

Which Values? Those to Create a Society to Benefit All People
Dwight Duckstein

The Teaching of Values in the Public Schools: Not Whose, Not Which, but How
Lynne Kail Gentry

Public Education and Shared Values
Darryl D. Hansen

Growing as Individuals, in a Community, and from Common Ground
Loretta S. Kuse

Vital Values Build Viable Societies
Charles R. Landon Jr.

Values Education-An Essential Element of the Public School Curriculum
Larry Parman

Compassion, Justice: Foundations of a Moral Education
Jeff Perrin

Demon in the Doorway, Satan in the Schoolhouse: The Myth of Values Education as Social Savior
Aaron Podolefsky

To Teach Values, We Must First Believe and Then Model Them Ourselves
Samona Joy Smit

Modify Public Schools to Include Education and Upbringing
Warren Wiele

Issue Area Three

Issue Area Three: School Choice: Possibility or Problem?
Ed Dickerson

Honoring the Right to Choose: An Argument for Funding Private Religious School Choice
John F. Cronin

School Choice: Right of the Past, Need of the Present
Bruce W. Klett

The Need for Expanding School Choice in Iowa
Dean W. Lemke

What Will Happen With Too Much Diversity?
Don McGinnis

What Is Best for All Children?
Laurie L. Musel

School Choice Is a Requirement
Greg Nichols

Schools and Choice
Timothy Stoffer

A Working Model of the Home Education Option
Mary Terpstra

School Choice: A Win-Win Situation
Jody K. Wohlers

Issue Area Four

Issue Area Four: Separation of Church and State: What Are the Legal Issues?
M. J. Dolan

Appendix A: Separation of Church and State: The Legal Issues in Public Schools: Background Paper
Kathy Lee Collins

Appendix B: First Amendment Religion Clauses: Questions and Answers
Kathy Lee Collins

Religious Minorities and the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses
Steven J. Drahozal

Supreme Court Decisions Change Original Intent of First Amendment
Galen R. Haegele

Church-State Separation: The Legal Issues that Impact Public Schools
Carl Hartman

Education System's Responsibilities Include Conveying Information About Religion
Steven E. Hein

Separation Can Still Allow Positive Religious Values in Public Life
Rodney Hilpipre

Historical, Current Arguments for Re-developing a Moral Base in Education
Tom Hochgesang

Allow Local School Boards to Choose Type of Education
Dennis St. Lawrence

Historical Interpretation Views Separation Clause More Narrowly
Gareth R. Volz

Issue Area Five

Issue Area Five: Consensus Building in the Community: What Generates Trust and Respect?
Homer Larsen

Involving Parents in the Consensus Building Process
Cheryl Budlong

Consensus Building: The Dimension that Makes Everything Work
Robert Decker

Coming to Consensus
Charlene Fulton

Trust: Overcoming the Fear of It, Building It, and Accepting It
David Haggard

Trust, Respect, and Consensus: Turning Principles Into Practice
Charles K. Johnson

Building Trust in the Community
Carolyn Jons

Democracy v. Dominion: Expression or Oppression?
Jody Ripper

A Road Map for Consensus Building A Road Map for Consensus Building
David H. Swim

Encourage School Boards to Seek Community-Wide Participation, Comments
Helen Van Steenhuyse

Consensus Building Starts with Understanding the Parts of the Whole
Louise Voss Thurn

Issue Area Six

Issue Area Six: Changing Schools for a Changing Society: The Schools as a Positive Force
Maryellen Knowles

Public School as a Force for Change
Floyd D. Jury

Changing Schools for a Changing Society
Jean Seeland

The Customer is Always the Customer
Michael Krumm

Schools Need to Change Focus and Return to Imparting Knowledge
Esther McGuire

Chaos: A Positive Force in Changing Schools
Joe Millard

Abracadabra Doesn't Work
Deon Senchina

Local Control, Stable Purposes and Changing Teaching Strategies: A Positive Force
Rod Wilbeck

Editors

Editor: Dave Else
Technical Editor: Carole Shelley Yates

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