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. Healing Public Schools is a step-by-step prescription for applying this reform medicine to the ailing educational system.
This inspiring account tells the story of how Florida businessman Allen Salowe drew from his experience in organizing and managing teams to taking charge of his own treatment plan--and his life--and triumphed in his battle with prostate cancer. Salowe explains how he utilized his skills as a problem solver, recounting his compelling odyssey to discover the path to healing.
Research and performance-based concepts are integrated here in an attempt to counter conventional wisdom on education. The book offers solutions for improving the public school system drawn from quality innovations in the business world, describing methods for using student-centered school management and technology, performance management, customer relationship management in education, and data warehousing for school improvement. Appendices offer models of working tools presently in use to help foster solutions presented in the book. Salowe, a former professor of economics at Webster University, is a senior fellow of the Florida Institute of Education. Lessinger, a licensed clinical psychologist, was professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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