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Making schools work : a revolutionary plan to get your children the education they need / William G. Ouchi with Lydia G. Segal.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.Description: xviii, 284 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0743246306
  • 9780743246309
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.2/00973
LOC classification:
  • LB 2822.82 O93m 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1 What Makes a School Great?: 1 The Best Schools in America Problems and Solutions 2 Three School Districts That Have Won the Revolution pt. 2 The Seven Keys to Success: 3 Key #1: Every Principal Is an Entrepreneur 4 Key #2: Every School Controls Its Own Budget 5 Key #3: Everyone Is Accountable for Student Performance and for Budgets 6 Key #4: Everyone Delegates Authority to Those Below 7 Key #5: There Is a Burning Focus on Student Achievement 8 Key #6: Every School Is a Community of Learners 9 Key #7: Families Have Real Choices Among a Variety of Unique Schools pt. 3 A Parent's Guide to School Improvement 10 How Good Is Your School? 11 What You Can Do to Improve Your School
Summary: This program has produced significant, lasting improvements in the school districts where it has already been implemented. Drawing on the results of a landmark study of 223 schools in six cities, a project that Ouchi supervised and that was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Making Schools Work shows that a school's educational performance may be most directly affected by how the school is managed."--Jacket
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LB 2822.82 O93m 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000009999

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.

pt. 1 What Makes a School Great?: 1 The Best Schools in America
Problems and Solutions
2 Three School Districts That Have Won the Revolution
pt. 2 The Seven Keys to Success: 3 Key #1: Every Principal Is an Entrepreneur
4 Key #2: Every School Controls Its Own Budget
5 Key #3: Everyone Is Accountable for Student Performance and for Budgets
6 Key #4: Everyone Delegates Authority to Those Below
7 Key #5: There Is a Burning Focus on Student Achievement
8 Key #6: Every School Is a Community of Learners
9 Key #7: Families Have Real Choices Among a Variety of Unique Schools
pt. 3 A Parent's Guide to School Improvement
10 How Good Is Your School?
11 What You Can Do to Improve Your School

This program has produced significant, lasting improvements in the school districts where it has already been implemented. Drawing on the results of a landmark study of 223 schools in six cities, a project that Ouchi supervised and that was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Making Schools Work shows that a school's educational performance may be most directly affected by how the school is managed."--Jacket

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