Dawson is also a faculty member at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. He received his Ph.D., in communication from the University of Arizona and his M.A. from the University of Nebraska. He and his wife Jennifer are now following a dream as restaurateurs in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Standardized testing is the knife in the back of school reform and with its emphasis on facts is a serious deterrent to character education. Colleagues, regretfully may also pose problems as it is a diversion from the status quo to discuss issues like honesty and integrity.
Administrators are generally an obvious conflict of interest.
Finally there is the school board. It is interesting to me that they escape culpability in all of this accountability craze. Schools can be only as good as school boards allow them to be. If you have comments, positive or negative, let's talk.