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A power shift in public education : seven strategies for dealing with broken promises /
A Power Shift in Public Education makes a direct assault on what the author believes are the primary causes of the failed public school system in America. This no-holds-barred book about big ideas makes the case that billions of dollars and millionsof man hours have been spent chasing the wrong solu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Education,
c2009.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : a different perspective
- Prologue
- Unsuccessful schools threaten our nation
- Strategy number 1 : power at the top
- Create and initiate "big ideas"
- Develop a powerful and equitable recruitment policy
- Exhibit fiscal courage
- Provide objective oversight and assessment of superintendent of schools
- Additional areas available to assess the work of the superintendent of schools
- Strategy number 2 : the superintendent of schools providing academic leadership
- Strategy number 3 : instructional power at the building level
- Strategy number 4 : establish ethical hiring standards
- Strategy number 5 : appropriate staffing levels
- Strategy number 6 : tenure track or performance track
- Strategy number 7 : performance-based compensation for superintendents
- Three essential questions for boards of education and school superintendents
- A word about chapters 16 and 17
- Colleges of education and state certification agencies are connected to unsuccessful schools
- Parents as a power source
- Epilogue
- Genesis of the book
- Notes on terminology
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.