Comments on: Flypaper http://joannejacobs.com/2008/04/15/flypaper/ Free-linking and thinking on education by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:12:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Michael Umphrey http://joannejacobs.com/2008/04/15/flypaper/#comment-74012 Michael Umphrey Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:12:28 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/04/15/flypaper/#comment-74012 Re: article on principals Leadership is nearly impossible in politically governed bureaucracies in a pluralistic society overdosing on theories of democracy and inclusion. The power belongs to organized complainers, so administrators opt for maximum invisibility as a survival strategy. We have designed schools that won't tolerate strong leadership. NCLB is emblematic. It puts in charge sets of procedures and sanctions and a lot of legal language. The vague and contradictory blather leads. Below that are vast phalanxes of managers. Nobody is in charge. Re: article on principals

Leadership is nearly impossible in politically governed bureaucracies in a pluralistic society overdosing on theories of democracy and inclusion. The power belongs to organized complainers, so administrators opt for maximum invisibility as a survival strategy.

We have designed schools that won’t tolerate strong leadership. NCLB is emblematic. It puts in charge sets of procedures and sanctions and a lot of legal language. The vague and contradictory blather leads. Below that are vast phalanxes of managers.

Nobody is in charge.

]]> By: allen http://joannejacobs.com/2008/04/15/flypaper/#comment-73997 allen Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:45:34 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/04/15/flypaper/#comment-73997 I don't think I would've chosen "Flypaper" as the name for a blog about "ideas that stick" given what one finds stuck to flypaper. I don’t think I would’ve chosen “Flypaper” as the name for a blog about “ideas that stick” given what one finds stuck to flypaper.

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