Healing Public Schools
Publisher: ScarecrowEducation; Scarecrow Press
Published: June 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780810839694
Subjects: Educational systems; Schools; Education; Education / Teaching; USA; Administration - General; Educational Policy & Reform; Education / Educational Reform; School improvement programs; Standards; United States
Description: 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. The authors explain how, by using the ISO - a set of quality standards - as a method, and the Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award - a prestigious national award - as incentive, schools can learn to become self-reformers. Already, a number of local school districts are using these criteria to reshape their way of thinking, meeting higher standards, and instiling a passion for quality. Healing Public Schools is a step-by-step prescription for applying this reform medicine to the ailing educational system.