What's wrong with America's schools? Why can't we fix them? How did we wind up with dropout rates of 25 percent and graduates who can barely read and write? Why does the United States spend twice as much on education as the international average and wind up near the bottom of the barrel in global comparisons of student achievement? Why do we lag behind nations such as South Korea, Hungary, and Singapore? And how should we go about improving the situation? Answers to these questions lie at the heart of this volume. David T. Kearns and James Harvey contend we are fine-tuning failure. We have yet to break with the past in order to face a different and challenging future. Despite worshiping at the altar of "local control" we have managed to create cookie-cutter schools across the country. We have been sidestepping the transparent need for common expectations about what students should know and be able to do. Standards, the authors say, are not clear enough or high enough. Above all, we have met the enemy and it is us: all of us support "change" as long as someone else is changing. This book is a fascinating and provocative analysis of where we went wrong and what we need to do to get American education back on track. It defines the kind of education our kids deserve. It calls for a new definition of "public education" in which choice is taken for granted. And it outlines an action agenda to help parents and citizens make first-class schools truly their own. In the future, the authors argue, we should think of a public school as any other non-profit entity —capable of operating in the public interest free of the red tape now strangling public education. It should be paid for by the public and accountable to the public, with its charter or contract routinely revoked when it stops serving public purposes or fails to meet its performance goals.

A Legacy of Learning: Your Stake in Standards and New Kinds of Public Schools

Business & Money

Harvey, James

BUSH, GEORGE

Kearns, David T.

Economics

Brookings Institution Press

The former CEO of Xerox tells the inside story of how the company revolutionized its structure using a "leadership through quality" strategy

Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese

Nadler, David A.

Harper Business

When Kearns became CEO of Xerox in 1982, he learned that the seemingly solid company was in danger of going under if it didn't react to increasing Japanese competition. Now he tells how his "prophets in the dark" slashed costs, doubled production, and cut the product development cycle by a full year to get Xerox back on top. Photos.

Harpercollins

Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive

With a six-point program for reform which includes allowing students to choose the schools they wish to attend, opening schools year round, abolishing traditional grading structures, and raising academic standards for graduation, this important book offers ". . . a radical agenda, a perestroika for American schools."--Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education.

Winning the brain race: A bold plan to make our schools competitive

ICS Press

Book by Kearns, David T., Doyle, Denis

Education & Teaching

Doyle, Denis

Schools & Teaching

With a six-point program for reform which includes allowing students to choose the schools they wish to attend, opening schools year round, abolishing traditional grading structures, and raising academic standards for graduation, this important book offers ". . . a radical agenda, a perestroika for American schools."--Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education.

Ics Pr

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A Legacy of Learning: Your Stake in Standards and New Kinds of Public Schools

Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese

Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese

Winning the brain race: A bold plan to make our schools competitive

Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive

Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive