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Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership.(Brief article)(Book review)
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January 01, 2009 |
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Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership. Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, eds. (Harvard Education Press). The idea that educators can learn from the business or nonprofit worlds used to be controversial. No longer. This text- book for aspiring superintendents and other district-level leaders, edited by two professors from Harvard's business school and two from its education school, rests on the premise that effective management practices are similar no matter what the sector. It offers 19 "cases" from corporations, agencies, and school districts that embody coherent, high-performing organizations. These cases are organized into "modules" on five themes: making coherence concrete; finding ...
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