Glickman Receives National Award for Book     Carl Glickman, professor emeritus of social foundations of education at UGA, and currently holder of The Mitte Endowed Chair in School Improvement at Texas State University-San Marcos, has been recognized with a national award for his latest book.     Glickman’s book titled, “Leadership for Learning,” received  the Distinguished Achievement Ed/Press Award from the National Association of Educational Publishers as one of the four most outstanding books in education published in the year 2002.     For nearly two decades at UGA, Glickman served in a number of leadership roles on university, state and national commissions to improve schools, teacher education and academic programs.       He was the founder and remains senior advisor of the Program for School Improvement, and the League of Professional Schools, both based in UGA’s College of Education, which he began in 1984 at the request of a veteran principal from a rural high school who was frustrated with not being able to accomplish the improvements he envisioned for his school. Today, there are more than 105 member schools in Georgia and across the nation.     Shortly after retiring from UGA in June 2001, Glickman accepted the chair at Texas State University where he is involved in a unique, interdisciplinary PhD program for public spirited community and school leaders. In addition, he is president of the Institute for Schools, Education, and Democracy, an independent and non-partisan organization devoted to strengthening education, civic engagement, and the promise of a fully functioning democracy.     Glickman most recently served on the Board of the National Commission for Service-Learning (chaired by Sen. John Glenn), a national initiative to revitalize democratic citizenry by connecting student academic learning with service to local communities.     He began his education career in 1968 as a Teacher Corps intern in the rural South. Since then, he has been a principal of award-winning schools, and has held faculty appointments in departments of curriculum and supervision, educational leadership, and foundations of education.     In 1997, he was awarded UGA’s highest faculty career award for bringing, “stature and distinction” to the mission of the university, and in 1999, students honored him as the faculty member who had “contributed most to their lives, inside and outside the classroom.”     He is the author of 12 books on school leadership, educational renewal, and the moral imperative of education. The supervision book that he co-authors with Southwest Texas State colleagues Stephen Gordon and Jovita Ross-Gordon has been a leading text in educational leadership for almost 20 years and will shortly be in its sixth edition. In spring 2004,  Jossey-Bass Publishers will release his next book,  Holding Sacred Ground: Essays on Leadership, Courage, and Sustaining Great Schools. Wednesday, September 17, 2003 WRITER: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu CONTACT: Carl Glickman, 512/245-8045, CG29@txstate.edu