Turning around failing schools
Subtitle: leadership lessons from the corporate and nonprofit sectors
By: Joseph Murphy, Coby V. Meyers.
Contributors: Meyers, Coby V.
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781412940962; 9781412940979
Subjects: School management and organization -- United States; School improvement programs -- United States; Educational leadership -- United States; Organizational change -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A framework for understanding turnaround; title: Symptoms of decline; title: Causes of organizational failure; title: Crisis, consequences, and dysfunctional reactions; title: Context and analytic frames for turnarounds; title: Getting the right leadership; title: Diagnosing the situation and taking emergency action; title: Pathways to recovery: operational vision, efficiencies, and organizational processes; title: Organizational work ethic and products; title: Turning around failing schools: the landscape; title: Turning around failing schools: the evidence.