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A power shift in public education : seven strategies for dealing with broken promises / Herbert F. Pandiscio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pandiscio, Herbert F. (Herbert Frederick), 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public schools--United States.
- Public schools.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This 'no holds barred' book about big ideas makes the case that billions of dollars and millions of man hours have been spent chasing the wrong solutions. Pandiscio makes a direct assault on what he believes to be the primary causes of the failed public school system in America.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-52416-X
- 9786612524165
- 1-60709-243-3
- OCLC:
- 609847059
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