Research Catalog

Title

The future of the American school system / Irving H. Buchen.

Author

Buchen, Irving H., 1930-

Publication

Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : ScarecrowEducation, 2004.

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Details

Description

viii, 333 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"In The Future of the American School System, Irving Buchen projects the future of public education for the next twenty-five years. He identifies and examines the major drivers of change, profiles all the critical educational constituencies, and offers a number of common-sense solutions to current and subsequent problems. Buchen also provides scenarios of solutions to prove that new approaches are both doable and viable."--Jacket.

Subject

• Education > United States > Forecasting
• Educational change > United States
• Educational leadership > United States
• Education > Forecasting
• Educational change
• Educational leadership
• Schule
• Schulorganisation
• Sozialer Wandel
• Schule
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-331).

Contents

The record of the past -- The laws of the future -- The system of systems -- Hiring teachers -- The teacher culture -- The economics of education 101 -- Money and teachers -- Teachers and technology -- Leadership expectations and job descriptions -- Survival skills for new principals -- Principals as instructional leaders -- Models of integrative leadership -- The principal as Plato -- The principal as CLO (chief learning officer) -- The principal as broker -- The principal as outsourcer : economically driven school reform -- Parents and educational change -- Teacher-parent partnerships -- Parents and school reform -- The student-centered curriculum -- The impact of the global economy on education and work -- Competition and school choice -- Accountable accountability : curing the cure -- Research-based learning -- Optimizing curricula -- Turnaround : what education has to offer business -- Accountability and role change : persuading lone rangers to be team players -- The world citizen : facilitating a future global identity for students -- A major change takes hold -- "Who is in charge?" -- The teacher leadership collaborative : a structural scenario -- TMs (technology managers) -- The future may be in the past : creating a universal curriculum -- The principal and strategic conversations -- The MBA principal -- Principals as futurists -- The coffee network -- The educational planning clearinghouse -- Electronic partnerships -- Tiny tot independent living -- K-16 -- Small is better -- Open-ended conclusions.

ISBN

• 1578861357
• 9781578861354

LCCN

2004000222

OCLC

• ocm54006552
• 54006552
• SCSB-8891767

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library