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Title: Making Schools Work : A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need by William G. Ouchi, Lydia G. Segal ISBN: 0-7432-4630-6 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An easy read for anyone concerned about PublicEducation
Comment: An easy must read for all!
This book is a must read. As a parent activist and public school teacher, this book is a great handbook to revolution in the schools. An easy read, he highlights good things going on and tells you how to evaluate your school in simple words. He also grants permission to everyone and anyone to question the current system, and then take action to decentralize it. It is a practical handbook to empower the public and creat revolutionary change in public education. READ IT AND PASS IT ALONG TO YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TOO!
Rating: 1
Summary: Is this guy talking about the same Seattle and Houston?
Comment: I live in Seattle and have children in the public schools here (also, I'm an education activitist here). Dr. Ouchi has written quite a revisionist history of Seattle education and used some cunning tricks to do so. For example, on page 37 he states that it was reported by a local newspaper that our last superintendent, Joseph Olchefske,was to resign at the end of the school year. Immediately following that sentence he gives a reason why (making it look as though that is what the newspaper, the Seattle Times, reported). The reason, as Dr. Ouchi, states, was that the superintendent "had been criticized for moving too slowly to close small schools and reduce central office expenses". Nothing is further from the truth and if Dr. Ouchi had bothered to actually read either of our two local newspapers, he would know this. Our superintendent was ousted for mismanaging $34 million dollars (he was an investment banker and possibly could have done more but hey, it's only money). Dr. Ouchi tries to hide this information in another section of the book by calling them accounting errors. If only they had been simple errors!
He also tries to make it seem as if Seattle teachers, by voting more than 85% a no-confidence vote, were trying to get back at the superintendent for his work in changing the procedure for teacher removal. Again, untrue. Teachers voted against him because of his lack of ability in running the district. They were joined by the principals executive board and by so many parents that he was forced to resign. The only supporters he had left sat on the school board which promptly saw the majority overturned in the last election.
Couple this disinct penchant for fudging the truth to support his theories with the recent revelations in print and on television about the so-called Houston miracle makes this entire book suspect.
Rating: 5
Summary: Making Schools Work
Comment: This book explains how the organization of a school system can affect student performance. It is filled with stories and data that are interesting, uplifting and compelling. I especially like Professor Ouchi's response to the question, "What makes a school great?" His Seven Keys to Success are "right on," in my opinion. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding why some schools and school systems work while others do not.
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Title: No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ISBN: 0743204468 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education by Thomas Toch ISBN: 080703245X Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools by Peter Schrag ISBN: 1565848217 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools by Tony Wagner, Thomas Vander Ark ISBN: 0415927625 Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Battling Corruption in America's Public Schools by Lydia G. Segal, James B. Jacobs ISBN: 1555535844 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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