Leadership and School Boards: Guarding the Trust
reviewed by Casey Hurley
 Title: Leadership and School Boards: Guarding the Trust Author(s): Laura Reimer Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 1578868297, Pages: 126, Year: 2008 Search for book at Amazon.com
A recent web chat sponsored by Education Week and the Wallace Foundation asked, “Are Local School Boards Obsolete?” In Leadership and School Boards Laura Reimer answers by telling school boards that, if they want to be relevant, they must understand and embrace their proper governance role. The purpose of this book is to describe that role.
Leadership and School Boards speaks to board members and others in the voice of one who has “been there.” Reimer is a former school board member and currently an instructor at the University of Winnipeg.
She follows a pattern throughout the book – arguing the importance of democratic, local, school board governance; admitting past school board failings; describing how they are supposed to perform their role; and identifying the principles that should guide this pursuit.
For example, she argues against the tendency of boards to meddle in daily operations by explaining that the superintendent... (preview truncated at 150 words.) Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, 2010, p. -
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