When a successful organization experiences a problem, it will use root-cause analysis to determine why the problem happened, and identify the steps need to correct and ultimately prevent it from happening again. You cannot fix it until you know where it is broken, but you cannot find out what is broken until you ask the right questions. But within the American education system, the prevailing attitude is to say ‘that’s just how the system works,’ or to issue a general blame to the bureaucrats in Washington and the state capitol. Many people see that it is wrong, but few are asking the right questions to figure out why. 
Best-selling author Lee Jenkins has spent his entire career working in and with schools, beginning as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and now a consultant helping schools tackle difficult problems. Jenkins believes that the problem with the American school system lies with the poor management system in place at all levels, including the classroom, school, and district. In Permission to Forget, Jenkins has identified ten critical root-cause problems and offers concise solutions to help change them. This book is the companion for Jenkins’ best-selling guide Improving Student Learning which provides in-depth answers to these ten problems.

Permission to Forget: And Nine Other Root Causes of America's Frustration with Education

Education & Teaching

Lee Jenkins

Schools & Teaching

Amer Society for Quality

This book describes 10 decades of wasteful practices buried deep within U.S. schools. Today s educators did not invent these wasteful practices; they inherited them. Five of the root causes are wasting time and five are wasting student potential. Ten years ago the first edition of Permission to Forget was published, and now this landmark anniversary edition is available. Its legacy of improvement is report after report from educators describing what happens in schools when these root causes are removed. It should not go unnoticed that root cause removal is free, unlike legislated reforms. Think about it: free! But teachers, principals, and district superintendents must collaborate in order to remove these root causes. Teachers can not remove them by themselves. Principals can not remove them by themselves. Superintendents can not remove them by themselves. Only together can teams of educators lead the removal of these 10 wasteful practices and provide America the education it desires.

Permission to Forget, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Quality Press

Student Book for Fraction Tiles: A Manipulative Fraction Program

Peggy McLean

Activity Resources Co.

Promotes learning addition, subtraction, multiplication & division of fractions using fraction tiles

Fraction Tiles Teacher Book: A Manipulative Fraction Program

Manipulative Book for Fraction Tiles: A Manipulative Fraction Program

Let's Pattern Block It

Jack McLaughlin

A humorous retelling of the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah answers what he sees, what he hears, what he feels, what he tastes and what he smells. The most humorous part of the book is what Jonah smells. He smells himself and he stinks because the whale is vomiting him up. 
Each of the books in the Bible Patterns for Young Readers series has a page of background information for parents to share with their children. The whole story cannot be told for young readers; the books becomes too complicated for them to read. Thus the background information is provided to fill in the details. For example, with the Jonah story it is important to note that Jesus stated just like Jonah was in the belly of a whale for 3 days, he would be in the heart of the earth for 3 days.

Three Days with Jonah: A Whale of a Story (Bible Patterns for Young Readers)

Ltoj Consulting Group

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