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The Global Achievement Gap |
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The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--and What We Can Do About It
Tony's latest book is now available online and in bookstores! To order from Amazon, click on the link below
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The New World of Work and the Seven Survival Skills
Chapter 2: The Old World of School
Chapter 3: Testing, 1 2 3
Chapter 4: Reinventing the Education Profession
Chapter 5: Motivating Today's Students-And Tomorrow's Workers
Chapter 6: Closing the Gap-Schools That Work
Conclusion: A Few Answers-and More Questions
Notes
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Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools |
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 Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools,co-authored by Robert Kegan and colleagues at the Change Leadership Group, was published by JosseyBass last year. The result of five years of work with school districts around the country, Change Leadershipis a powerful learning and diagnostic tool for teams from schools and districts. Here is an excerpt from the foreword, written by Tom Vander Ark, Executive Director of the Education Programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools |
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 Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools reframes the education debate in fundamental ways. Wagner argues persuasively that schools are not failing and can't be helped with reforms. Rather the public education system has become obsolete and must be reinvented. He goes on to describe principles of reinvention, new approaches to accountability, and vivid examples of highly successful public schools where all children are learning the critical competencies for the new knowledge economy. Find out what reviewers are saying about this best-selling primer on education reinvention...
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How Schools Change: Lessons From Three Communities |
 How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities Revisited is a highly readable acount of three high schools and their communities in the process of fundamental change. It is widely considered an education classic. In the new second edition, Tony revisits the three schools he first studied to find out what has happened in the intervening years and takes a close look at how rapid changes in the policy environment has impacted these schools and their leaders. Find out more about this book... |
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