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Ben Chavis is a former principal and outspoken leader in the education reform movement. His tenure as the principal at American Indian Public Charter School was both successful in raising performance and enrollment and controversial for his methods.〔(Former Educator Embraces 'Crazy' Teaching Style ) September 8, 2009 NPR〕 He is the author of ''Crazy Like a Fox; One principal's triumph in the inner city''.〔Mitchell Kapor, Special to The Chronicle ('Crazy Like a Fox,' by Ben Chavis ) September 13, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle〕〔(Crazy Like a Fox website )〕〔(Top Performing Oakland Charter School could close amid... ) Mercury News〕 Chavis featured in the documentary film ''Flunked''. Chavis is a Lumbee Indian.〔Hayley Burgess, Managing Editor (Dr. Chavis: Lumbees have 'lust for life' ) spring 2011 UNC Pembroke〕 The eldest of six children, his alcoholic father died while he was young. Chavis grew up in Robeson County, North Carolina. He attended Oklahoma City University on a track scholarship and then Pima College and the University of Arizona, on an academic scholarship. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in education. He also worked as a school janitor to help pay for his education. He got a master's degree through night classes at Northern Arizona University and continued his education at the University of Arizona with doctorate degrees in education, philosophy and anthropology.〔Simone Sebastian (Principal's philosophy shaped by upbringing, formal education ) December 16, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle〕 Chavis became a professor in the ethnic studies department at San Francisco State University in 1988. He was superintendent of schools at an Indian reservation in Fort Apache, Arizona. Then in 2000, he was recruited by Oakland's Native American community to take over the struggling American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland.〔 Chavis returned to North Carolina to speak on his experiences and Elmer W. Hunt's photographs in 2011.〔 Chavis currently resides in North Carolina.He received much criticism from the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) for allegedly receiving over $3.8 million in school funds for leasing school facilities, construction and his salary from 2006 -2012〔Ben Boychuk (Ben Chavis’s Last Stand ) Summer 2013 City Journal〕 In February 2013, OUSD attempted to revoke the school's charter ; however, the Superior Court of Alameda County ruled in the American Indian Public Charter Schools favor. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Chavis (educator)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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