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Philadelphia's Schools Get $5 Million Slots Win to http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=1762611/2/2006 7:01:12 PMGary StagerLegendary Boston Celtics coach, Red Auerbach, died this past week at the age of 89. Beyond his accomplishments on the court and in the front office, Auerbach’s leadership style makes him a worth role model for those interested in improving K-12 education.http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=1762411/2/2006 1:28:12 PMGary StagerCall me Admiral Stager! I took swimming lessons for seven years, visited the USS Ling submarine in Hackensack, NJ and my father was once in the National Guard. I’ve even been known to giggle at reruns of McHale’s Navy and Gilligan’s Island. However, the best reasons to name me Admiral are: 1) I want the job and 2) I have no qualifications whatsoever!http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=1744910/13/2006 2:44:58 PMGary Stager Aside from reducing teachers to script-reading robots and reading to an onerous task, the Federal government's controversial $4.8 billion Reading First program has been accused of numerous improprieties by the Inspector General of the Department of Education. The scathing report, The Reading First Program’s Grant Application Process – Final Inspection Report, was released on Friday (June 22), employing a common tactic used in the hopes that bad news will escape the public’s attention over the weekend.http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=1718510/4/2006 12:00:00 AMGary StagerBack-to-School Night: America's Annual Torture Convention I used to refer to Back-to-School Night at my kids' schools as "The Night of 1,000 Columns," because of the comical inspiration provided by each year's new gum rules, notebook policies (loose leaf vs. spiral vs. "Trapper Keeper") and truly awful public speaking. (See a classic from ....http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=1735910/3/2006 12:00:00 AMGary StagerI am a great critic of adults overreacting to new technologies. Schools neither have the resources, right or responsibility to police what students do with computers outside of the classroom. Yet many school leaders imagine themselves as super heroes deputized to regulate behavior after school and in cyberspace. Such a stance is unwise and ....http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=171749/23/2006 2:01:35 PMGary StagerThe September 14th edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer published an alarming article by Susan Snyder ( ssnyder@phillynews.com), with the headline, "Laptops raise stakes for student safety." Scary, huh?http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=170559/14/2006 9:38:01 PMGary StagerIn an interconnected world of 80 million MySpace pages, 40 million bloggers and half a million people contributing to Wikipedia you need to not only keep up, but make sense of a world speeding along in Internet time.http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=169619/4/2006 10:03:00 AMGary StagerTeacher educator, author and consultant, Gary Stager, has spent the past twenty-three years helping teachers on six continents make sense of their roles in the digital age. In 1990 he led development efforts at the world's first two "laptop schools" in Australia. Since then, Gary has worked with countless laptop schools from Maine to ....http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=168848/30/2006 12:10:01 PM