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The future of the American school system / Irving H. Buchen.
Van Pelt Library LA217.2 .B816 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchen, Irving H., 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--United States--Forecasting.
- Education.
- United States.
- Forecasting.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Educational leadership--United States.
- Educational leadership.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 333 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2004.
- Summary:
- Irving H. Buchen projects the future of public education for the next 25 years as he identifies and examines the major drivers of change, profiles all the critical educational constituencies, and offers a number of common sense solutions to current and subsequent problems.
- Contents:
- The record of the past
- The laws of the future
- The system of systems
- Hiring teachers
- The teacher culture
- The economics of Education 101
- Money and teachers
- Teachers and technology
- Leadership expectations and job descriptions
- Survival skills for new principals
- Principals as instructional leaders
- Models of integrative leadership
- The principal as Plato
- The principal as CLO (Chief Learning Officer)
- The principal as broker
- The principal as outsourcer
- Parents and educational change
- Parent-teacher partnerships
- Parents and school reform
- The student-centered curriculum
- The impact of the global economy on education and work
- Competition and school choice
- Accountable accountability
- Research-based learning
- Optimizing curricula
- Turnaround
- Accountability and role change
- The world citizen
- A major change takes hold
- "Who is in charge?"
- The teacher leadership collaborative
- TMs (Technology Managers)
- The future may be in the past
- The principal and strategic conversations
- The MBA principal
- Principals as futurists
- The coffee network
- The educational planning clearinghouse
- Electronic partnerships
- Tiny tot independent learning
- K-16
- Small is better
- Open-ended conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331).
- ISBN:
- 1578861357
- OCLC:
- 54006552
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