{"id":2128,"date":"2014-01-16T18:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T01:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2014-01-16T18:54:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T01:54:51","slug":"sparkman-brandon-buster-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"SPARKMAN, BRANDON BUSTER, 1929-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator. Born&#8211; Aug. 2, 1929 in Hartselle, Ala. Parents&#8211; George Olen and Mary Louise (Jones) Sparkman. Married&#8211; Wanda Phillips, Sept. 13, 1952. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Florence State University BS, 1952; University of Alabama, M.S., 1958; Ed.S., 1961; Auburn University, Ed.D., 1971. \u00a0Taught at Bear Creek (Alabama) High School, 1954-1955, and assistant principal, 1955-1957; principal in Tuscumbia, Ala., 1958-1965, and assistant superintendent, 1965-1967; professor and part-time consultant at Auburn University, 1969-1970; teacher and administrator in Jackson (Miss.) public schools, 1970-1973; county superintendent in Richland Co. (S.C.) District One, 1971-1973; became assistant superintendent, Hartselle (Alabama) schools in 1975-1980; Guntersville City Schools, Superintendent, 1980- . Member&#8211; American Association of School Administrators, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision, Phi Delta Kappa, and Kappa Delta Pi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blueprint for a Brighter Child. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>How Well Does Your Child Read? Hartselle, Ala.; Brandman Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reading Skills Competency Tests. West Nyack, N.Y.; Center for Applied Research in Education, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Skills Competency Tests, Advanced Level. West Nyack, N.Y.; Center for Applied Research in Education, 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator. Born&#8211; Aug. 2, 1929 in Hartselle, Ala. Parents&#8211; George Olen and Mary Louise (Jones) Sparkman. Married&#8211; Wanda Phillips, Sept. 13, 1952. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Florence State University BS, 1952; University of Alabama, M.S., 1958; Ed.S., 1961; Auburn University, Ed.D., 1971. \u00a0Taught at Bear Creek (Alabama) High School, 1954-1955, and assistant principal, 1955-1957; principal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}