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Patrick F. Bassett

Patrick F. Bassett is a former president of NAIS. 

Articles:

  1. Assuring Healthy Schools
  2. An Explication of "Fisherman's Wife"
  3. Professionalizing the Profession
  4. Class, Popular Media, and Independent Schools
  5. An Alignment of the Stars
  6. Are Robin Williams and Kevin Kline "High Quality Teachers"?
  7. Financing Independent Schools for the 21st Century
  8. A Game-Changing Model for Financially Sustainable Schools
  9. An Education President for the 21st Century
  10. Change Agency Leadership
  11. Independence Under Fire
  12. Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
  13. Utopian Schools
  14. Teaming for Sustainable Leadership
  15. Sports at the Academy
  16. Change Leadership
  17. Demonstrations of Learning for 21st-Century Schools
  18. High Anxiety, the Sequel
  19. The Genius of James Madison
  20. The Model Minority?
  21. Towards a Professional Culture in Independent Schools
  22. Quote/Unquote
  23. The Finnish Model
  24. The Innovation Imperative
  25. Strategic Planning is an Oxymoron
  26. When Parents and Schools Align
  27. Twenty-Five Factors Great Teachers Have in Common
  28. When Politicians Legislate What We Teach
  29. The Third Great American Revolution
  30. What It Means to Be Fifty
  31. Twenty-Five Factors Great Schools Have in Common
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