Healing Public Schools The Winning Prescription to Cure Their Chronic Illness,9780810839694

Healing Public Schools The Winning Prescription to Cure Their Chronic Illness

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ISBN13: 9780810839694
ISBN10: 0810839695
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-06-26
Publisher(s): R&L Education
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Summary

What do you get when you combine a European system of standards with an American business award? Quality schools that continually and passionately engage in reform to meet high educational standards, according to Salowe and Lessinger. Healing Public Schools is a step-by-step prescription for applying this reform medicine to the ailing educational system.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Leslie L. Kossoff
Prologue xv
What's Ailing Our Public Schools?
1(20)
A Brief History of Calls for Change in Education
This Time Is Really Different
The Mission of the School in the Information Age
Deming's Framework for Improving Schools
Another Angle on the Need for School Quality
Why Is Traditional Education Out of Step?
What Schools Need to Do Now
Classroom Teaching Suffers Its Pain in Silence
21(22)
Our Proposition
The Achilles' Heel of Reliable Teacher Quality
What's Happening Now?
Instructional Differences Suggesting Unreliability
The Nature of School Change That Furthers the Tyranny of Chance
The Follow-Through Study
Past, Present, and Prospective
Positive Steps to Help Relieve Chronic Pain
43(26)
The Cruelty of Chance in Education
Evidence of Unreliability in Classroom Teaching
The Tyranny of Chance and Educational Malpractice Suits
The Likely Future
A Personal Story from the Board
Some Discussion Topics about What Happens in the Classroom
Practice Teaching or a Teaching Practice?
Good Practice, Bad Practice, and Malpractice in Education
The Realities Good Practice Must Satisfy
Ending the Tyranny of Chance
Reliable Treatments Help Sick Schools Get Better
69(20)
Processes Lead the Way
Helping Parents Help Their Student to Meet Standards
The Quality Dimension in the School
Why System Thinking?
The Baldrige Award, ISO 9000, and Systems Thinking
The Ghost of Dr. Semmelweiss
Using Quality to Improve the Health and Fitness of Schools
89(24)
A Quick Introductory Lesson from Business
What's Really at Stake?
Leveling the Global Playing Field
Who Will Your Student Work for Someday?
Information: New Technology for New Times
Coopetition Brings a New View of Control
Learning from Business
Summing Up
A Reliable Organization Inspires the Health of Public Schools
113(18)
HRO, Baldrige, and ISO
Quality Criteria Link to the HRO
Common Threads Tying Quality Systems Together
Making HRO Work with Baldrige and ISO
Summary: The Malcolm Baldrige Quality Standards in Education
ISO Standards for Education
Continuous Improvement Helps Shape School Performance
131(18)
An American Model of Japanese Kaizen
Guided Learning Experience: A Worker Training
Crisis in World War II
A Current Case Study of American Kaizen
A Parental Guide to Due Care
Prescription for Healing the Chronic Illness of Public Schools
149(26)
Using the Right Tools to Do the Job
Tools for Teamwork
The Winning Prescription Is Based on Solution Talk
Is School Really So Different from Business?
Sticking to the Winning Prescription
A Final Word
Afterword: Dr. William N. Kiefer 175(24)
Epilogue 199(6)
Appendix A. Getting Public Schools Back to Health 205(28)
Appendix B. Understanding Processes in Schools 233
Appendix C. Resources for Healing Public Schools 229(8)
Appendix D. Healthy Schools with Systems Thinking 237(4)
Appendix E. Draft State Reliability Legislation 241(4)
Appendix F. Articles and Books 245(4)
References 249(4)
About the Authors 253

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