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Since 1986, school administrators, school board members, school attorneys, teachers, coaches, counselors, and university professors have relied upon this highly popular and standard reference source. Newly revised to include legislative and judicial developments through the spring of 2000, the Fifth Edition of The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law provides the most current, comprehensive source on Texas education law available. The authors have extensively updated all the chapters in this edition and have added much new information to help educators manage the challenges of the new century successfully. Among the topics added to the Fifth Edition are employee drug testing, contract termination decisions issued by the certified hearing examiners, the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and legal issues involving the Internet. Readers will find an expanded review of federal disability law, with emphasis on new developments involving the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The legal liability discussion has been expanded to encompass the dramatic increase in court rulings on sexual abuse and harassment. The Fifth Edition also includes all relevant federal and state court rulings and the decisions of the Texas Commissioner of Education. ... Read more

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TEXAS SCHOOL LAW: EVERYONE SHOULD OWN THIS BOOK
THIS BOOK IS USED FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE IN THE EDUCATION GRADUATE PROGRAM, BUT I BELIEVE EVERYONE, INCLUDING BEGINNING TEACHERS SHOULD HAVE THIS BOOK.IT IS A BOOK THAT WILL SAVE ANYONE WHO IS IN THE EDUCATION FIELD A LOT OF MONEY AND HIS/HER PICTURE OFF THE FRONT PAGE OF THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.

Law Book
This is an easy to follow book that covers any questions an educator may have over just about any law.I loved that it had a regular index as well as an index of court cases.

Great TX School Law overview
This book was an asset.I used it instead of my assigned text when working to pass the TExES Principal exam.This book was much better and more reader friendly than anything else I had used.The special ed section is a Must Read as is the part on employee rights!I highly recomment this book!

Necessary for Texas Educators
The title doesn't sound overly interesting but it actually is an interesting book. Teaching is an important job but there are a lot of things that a teacher could do to get in trouble (such as breaking privacy laws).The book also covers the law regarding starting a job contract, which I found to be particularly enlightening. It also covers some of the changes to Texas law since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and laws regarding English language learners and illegal immigrants (they have the right to public education like anyone else).These are all important issues for the Texas teacher.

The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law
This book arrived quickly and has proved to be everything I needed it to be. Thank you very much ... Read more

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In the famous Brown v. the Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Yet history records that it took more than a decade of legal battles, civil rights protests, and, tragically, violent confrontations before black students gained full access to previously white schools. Mansfield, Texas, a small community southeast of Fort Worth, was the scene of an early school integration attempt. In this book, Robyn Duff Ladino draws on interviews with surviving participants, media reports, and archival research to provide the first full account of the Mansfield school integration crisis of 1956. Ladino explores how power politics at the local, state, and federal levels ultimately prevented the integration of Mansfield High School in 1956. Her research sheds new light on the actions of Governor Allan Shivers--who, in the eyes of the segregationists, actually validated their cause by his political actions--and it underscores President Dwight Eisenhower's public passivity toward civil rights during his first term of office. Despite the short-term failure, however, the Mansfield school integration crisis helped pave the way for the successful integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Thus, it deserves a permanent place in the history of the civil rights movement, which this book amply provides. ... Read more

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One- and two-room schools represent a paradoxical time in Texas history when school played second fiddle to family duties but still served as the focus of community life. Luther Bryan Clegg's The Empty Schoolhouse provides a direct link to the past through interviews with students who attended these schools and teachers who taught in this area between Fort Worth and Odessa and the Hill Country and Amarillo. Former students share stories describing Friday afternoon "literary societies," dead snakes in desk drawers, pranks, fires, travel to and from school, and discipline. Drawing on historical and sociological data as well as interviews. Clegg presents intriguing accounts of rural life, preserving the uniqueness of the "olden days." ... Read more

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Would your students believe that a 3-month school year might not be a good thing?Would you believe that Nintendo is concerned with children's education?Believe it or not, there's lots of fascinating information about schools in Texas.You won't believe how much things have changed, and how much they've stayed the same.Texas students once wrote on birch bark and had to make their own ink; now they use pink candy-filled erasers!In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson lamented the lack of science teachers - this sounds familiar today!This book will teach you about the history of schools in Texas, but mostly it will help you and your students see that school can be interesting . . . and there's always more to learn.Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book.Something students & teachers can enjoy equally together - perhaps the best lesson of all?! ... Read more

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Schools in Texas experienced phenomenal development during the state's first century, beginning with informal open-air classrooms and one-room schools in the 1830s and continuing up to modern elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools built with oil money in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of these schools remain today and offer a unique starting point for learning about the history of education in Texas. To preserve this history, Mary Black and Bruce Jordan set out to find and photograph historically significant school buildings across the state. The documentary record they present in Early Texas Schools shows how ardently Texans of all races and walks of life have aspired to educate their children, succeeding even in the face of geographical isolation, poverty, and racism. Early Texas Schools gathers images of schools built from the 1850s to the 1930s, as well as in all regions of the state. The buildings tell many remarkable stories, including how Anglos, African Americans, Mexican Americans, German immigrants, and other groups approached the education of their children. Particularly interesting are the stories of African American and Mexican American schools, which provided the only formal education their students could obtain during the era of segregation. Accompanying the photographs is a concise history of education in Texas, from the very rudimentary instruction available during the Republic to the development of modern universities around the turn of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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recognition for the forgotten
This is my first review of any sort.......I absolutely love this book.
I got it for Christmas..(It was the only thing I asked for)
I live in Texas & I love abandoned architecture...
I cannot say enough good about this book....I have been to
some of the schools in this book & am going to go to some more
The photographer Bruce Jordan, is incredible, he shoots the pictures
in this book with B&W film, giving them a haunting look....If your looking
for a book with great pictures of old architecture & an interesting
story, you have got to get this book..............
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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High school football is one of the identifying institutions of twentieth-century Texas. It is not unusual to see youthful football players placed on the same pedestal as the cowboy, oil man, or other icons of the Lone Star State. In fact, it is shaped in the image of its coaches who are, by and large, an enigma to most of us. We think of them as caricatures, men who are alternately revered and vilified (usually depending on how many games they have won recently), but they have always been members of a traditional, closed society, and we do not really know them in their complexities.

Pigskin Pulpit opens the Texas high school coaching profession to historical scrutiny for the first time, examining this breed of men who shaped the game—and generations of players—in their own images. Tracing side-by-side the development of the game and the coaching profession from its beginnings to today, author Ty Cashion explains how this avocation wove itself so tightly into the fabric of Texas culture.

Football fans and critics of the game alike will be drawn into this probing, analytical study that is sure to become a Texas classic. ... Read more

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If you ever cussed a coached, if you ever idolized a coach
I missed Ty Cashion's book "Pigskin Pulpit" when it was first released a few years ago but with the re-release in paper back this year (2006) I had the opportunity to read it.I think the reason I didn't read it the first time was the title.I thought it was another "Glory" of High School Football book.Had I just paid attention to the subtitle "A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches" my history buff inclination would have made reading this book a no brainer.

Ty Cashion was ordained to write this book.A professor of history at Sam Houston State University and more importantly the son of a Texas High School football coach, Ty had the knowledge to tell the story and the access to interview, by my count, at least 82 different Texas High School football coaches, many of which are no longer with us.

Some 40+ years ago, when I was a kid, I would listen to Texas High School football play off games on the radio.The radio announcer start by saying something like this: "Broadcasting from P.E. Shotwell stadium in Abilene, Texas ...".

P. E. Shotwell, Darrell Tully, and Gordon Wood may just be the name of Texas High School football stadiums for football fans of the current generation but they are just three of the many coaches that made Texas High School football what it is today.Many young athletes dream of "going pro" and signing multimillion dollar contracts.School boy football players born into the depression era of the early twentieth century just dreamed of the chance to play college football, get an education and coach football.It was their ticket off the farm anda way to a better life.

Ty Cashion chronicles the path to their goal and how the experiences that they had impacted several generations of young men in Texas.

If you ever knew a coach, if you ever played for a coach, if you ever learned from a coach, if you ever cussed a coached, if you ever idolized a coach ..., you need to read this book.

Awesome Reading!!!!!
This is a great book.It tells the story of how High School Football has become the number one event in Texas.I am glad someone put these stories into print because sadly many of these great men are leaving us but their stories and the impact they have had, and continue to have, will be passed on.This is a must read for any football fan.

I Thought This Was Supposed to be a History Book?
Aren't history books supposed to be dull as dishwater?I gave this book to my 80+ year-old Father for Christmas.He really enjoyed it!So did I, for that matter.Dr. Cashion must have spend untold hours interviewing old-time Texas High School football coaches and those who played underthem.This book is as close to listening to those old timers as thewritten word can be.Growing up in football crazy Garland, Texas(back-to-back state championships in the 1960's under Chuck Curtis), Iremember as a child "high school football fever."This hits themark, or should I say is a "two point conversion." ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Mascot Mania
This little book can be often used.The compilers found about 300 different mascots from about 1,200 schools.The most popular were animals, Eagles, Bulldogs, Tigers, Panthers, Mustangs represented about 50 schools each.The most popular human figures included Indians, Pirates, Warriors, Trojans, Rangers, Rebels, and Knights.Weather included the Hurricanes and Tornadoes.Other creatures abounded.My favorites are the Hutto Hippos and the Hamlin Pied Pipers. ... Read more

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There is continuing need to analyze new evidence concerning school inputs and provide better measures of how different kinds of public expenditures in education map into outcomes that matter from society's point of view. This study provides an incremental step along this path by providing nonparametric and parametric measures of school input effects. It exploits a unique data set from Texas based on Academic Excellence Indicator System reports provided by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) from 1994 to 2002, supplemented by data from the Public Education Information Management System, which is TEA's statewide educational database. Nearly all research on student performance uses district level data. This study analyses student performance at both the district and the campus level. It also develops teacher variables that link teachers to students more directly. School output is measured using student pass rates and student mean scores, both in reference to the annual statewide exam called Texas Assessment of Academic Skills or TAAS. These outcome variables are examined by means of regression analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis, which links school inputs to multiple school outcomes. ... Read more

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Chapters: High Schools in Irving, Texas, Mustangs at Las Colinas, Ranchview High School, Texas Stadium, Nimitz High School (Irving, Texas), Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas, Macarthur High School (Irving, Texas), Jack E. Singley Academy, Irving Mall, Irving High School. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Texas Stadium was a football stadium in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Built to replace the aging Cotton Bowl, it was the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, and had a seating capacity of 65,675. The stadium opened on October 24, 1971. In 2009, it was replaced as home of the Cowboys by the $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium, which completed construction and officially opened on May 27, 2009 in Arlington, Texas. The stadium was demolished by controlled implosion on April 11, 2010. Texas Stadium was to have originally been a stadium with a retractable roof, but the stadium could not support the weight of the entire roof. This resulted in most of the stands being enclosed but not the playing field itself. This unusual arrangement more commonly seen in European soccer stadiums prompted Cowboys linebacker D. D. Lewis to make his now-famous quip "Texas Stadium has a hole in its roof so God can watch His favorite team play", often paraphrased as the "hole" in the stadium's roof was there "so that God can watch His team." The roof at Texas Stadium, whose worn paint had become unsightly in the early 2000s, was repainted in the summer of 2006 by the City of Irving, which owned the stadium. It was the first time the famed roof was repainted since Texas Stadium opened. The roof was structurally independent from the stadium it covered. The stadium hosted neutral-site college football games and was formerly the home field of the SMU Mustang...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=554063 ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1914Original Publisher: Von Boeckmann-Jones co., printersSubjects: AgricultureEducationBusiness ... Read more

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"The promise of an empty football field is an irresistible force for those who understand and revere the game," Jeff Wilson observes. Drawn by the sense of possibility and nostalgia inherent in every stadium, Wilson traveled the state of Texas to photograph high school stadiums for a photo essay that appeared in Texas Monthly in August 2005. The magazine's readers responded with an outpouring of enthusiasm, and Wilson's photo essay was nominated for a prestigious National Magazine Award.

In Home Field, Wilson creates a unique photo portrait of nearly eighty Texas high school football stadiums, ranging from the bright lights, artificial turf, and seating for thousands at Southlake Carroll to the lone set of bleachers under the wide open sky in Veribest. Shot from the fifty-yard line facing the home stands, these photographs invite us to view each stadium from the same vantage point and experience it as an evocative place that holds a community's collective memories. Accompanying the photographs are reminiscences about the fields from players, coaches, team physicians, athletic directors, sportswriters and announcers, school superintendents, principals and teachers, band directors, maintenance workers, booster club parents, students, and fans. Their stories--whether funny, nostalgic, or poignant--reveal just how important high school football is to Texans and how it creates an unforgettable sense of community and camaraderie.

Sure to bring back memories as soon as you open the book, Home Field captures what football is supposed to be--"simple and pure, like a perfect spiral arcing gracefully across the sky."

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Beautiful and Timeless
I first saw Jeff's photos in Texas Monthly and then again in Texas Highways Magazine.I was taken back by the simplicity and beauty in these photos.He has really given us the ability to be a part in football in a large and diverse state.In Texas, Friday Night Football Fever is a way of life for many communities no matter its size.In addition to the beautiful images taken on the 50 yard line, there are contributions from people who attended the school (for instance Colt McCoy talks about Jim Ned High School).This is a must have for any football lover.

Home Field:Texas High School Football Stadiums
I bought this book as a gift for my son for his birthday in November----therefore I have not given it to him yet. However, I did receive the book in a timely manner and after looking it over I think he will be extremely happy with it. He is the sort who will go to ANY football game at ANY field in ANY city and with ANY teams whether he has heard of them or not!This book is MADE for him! ... Read more

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The Language of Diversity is an orchestrated effort of twenty-eight contributing authors, an editor, and three co-editors across the United States and Canada, and the stellar list includes bestselling authors, scholars, academicians, businessmen, theologians, and healthcare providers.Steeped in the Christian worldview, the twenty-five essays are sectioned off into three areas. Section One is comprised of seven essays, which focus on topics that bridge the gap among racial, cultural, and religious differences in an effort to bring about a greater awareness of human diversity and civil charity. The five essays in Section Two examine interfaith relations among Christians, Muslims, and Mormons respectively. The selections provide a serious examination of the tenets of these faiths and pose many challenges among diverse faith-goers.Section Three entails thirteen essays that challenge readers to stretch behind the comforts of their boundaries to probe topics such as education and race; gender and hiring practices in higher education; the Christian church and race relations; implementation of a nursing practicum with a culturally-diverse perspective; a campaign to train credible business leaders in a global culture; and so forth. ... Read more

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A child regrets leaving Texas for summer farm work in Illinois, but realizes "home" is where family and friends are. ... Read more

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From writing mysteries, to the human genome project, these model lessons for the core academic areas will excite your students and save you planning time. In addition to the 12 model lessons provided, the book includes a step-by-step guide to developing lessons that emphasize depth and complexity. All of the materials focus on ways to align the middle school curriculum with established national standards and offer strategies to evaluate learner achievement.

The writers who contributed lessons to this book are all outstanding educators who were selected based on their subject area expertise and experience in curriculum writing. They worked tirelessly, writing, revising, and rewriting, creating model lessons that have set a high standard for middle school teachers.

The lessons have been grouped by grade level as they share a common theme. The grade level designations are, to some degree, for demonstration and example purposes only. In a particular classroom, lessons from other grade levels may be equally appropriate.

The most important goal of this book is the hope that, with the examples of curriculum excellence and the theoretical background, teachers will begin to develop standards-based lessons and units of study that will promote high-end learning for gifted students in middle school. ... Read more