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This paper discusses Joe Clark's book "Laying Down the Law" as being one of the most thought provoking works on the needs of the secondary education system ever written. The writer of this paper focuses on the appointment of Joe Clark as Principal of Eastside High School in N.J. and his unique courage, brilliance, leadership, administrative skills and pure devotion to the process of educating of our youth which put Clark in a category all his own. This paper discusses the media attention given to Clark by exposing his plan in the creation of "magnet" schools which resulted in changing secondary education across America.

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"Joe Clark too is well qualified to not only do the job he did, but become the leader he became in the reform of Secondary Education during the just past decade. He was raised in the ghetto of Newark, New Jersey and boot-strapped himself and his family out of the terrible grip of poverty his life was entangled in. He did so by hard work, education and most importantly of all "applying the knowledge I've gained." This he did boldly, almost reverentially, and his innovative Conservatism became contagious."

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