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Roy G. Brooks has been named the superintendent of the Little Rock, Ark., school district.
Mr. Brooks, 53, who served as an area superintendent for the 167,000-student Orange County, Fla., schools for six years before retiring from that district in June, succeeds Morris Holmes. Mr. Holmes has been the interim superintendent of the 25,000-student Little Rock district since August of last year.
Mr. Brooks began the $180,000-a-year position July 1.
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Susan Elizabeth Masterson is the new president-elect of the National Association of Elementary School Principals.
Ms. Masterson, 54, the principal of the 410-student Monroe Elementary School in Janesville, Wis., will serve as president-elect through July 1 of 2005, and then as president for the following year. The current president of the association is Rosemarie I. Young, the principal of the 580-student Watson Lane Elementary School in Louisville, Ky.
The Alexandria, Va.-based NAESP provides advocacy and support for its 29,500 members, who are elementary and middle school principals from the United States and other countries.
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Joanne Yatvin has been elected the vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Ms. Yatvin, a professor of continuing teacher licensure and reading at Portland State University in Oregon, begins her one-year term with the council in November.
Ms. Yatvin will succeed Kyoko Sato, who will serve as president-elect for the same term and will then serve a one-year term as president of the council.
The Urbana, Ill.-based NCTE provides research, journals, newsletters, and other services to its 60,000 members worldwide.
—Catherine A. Carroll
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