Getting It Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing What's Broken

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Getting it Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing Whats Broken challenges citizens of this nation to right the wrongs in public education by elevating the graduation rate and by equipping every graduate with saleable skills for gainful employment in the marketplace and with foundation skills for postsecondary education success. This text encourages a proactive emphasis for prekindergarten through grade twelve supported with emerging research for early detection of at-risk students and subsequent early intervention. Getting It Right applauds uniting the community, home, and school in the education of each child.

Poignant reflections of Dr. Parrishs experiences in public education in instructional, diagnostic, and central office administrative positions are embedded throughout Getting It Right with penetrating reflections of eloquently fulfilled promises, yet multiples of shattered dreams and lost childhoods of boys and girls. Dr. Parrish steps up to the plate proclaiming a quantifiable, higher level educational standard for every student is a global priority and a national emergency.

This bookculminates with definitive, research-based strategies for energized, dynamic school renewal in every community in this nationfrom metropolitan skyscrapers to barrio shanties from snow-capped mountains to parched desertsfor every boy and every girl.

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Getting It Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing Whats Broken isan eloquent and honest account of the status of public schools in the United States. I stand in awe of Dr. Parrishs courage, honesty, and determination in bringing the shortcomings of todays public schools to the attention of society with the expectation for improving the education of all students. This well-balanced book not only highlights the areas where our schools fall short, it also provides suggestions for remediation. This is an honest and timely book that I will share with my colleagues, university students, and friends. -- Tammy L. Stephens, Ph.D., assessment consultant, Pearson; author, teacher, and educational diagnostician
Dr. Parrishs experience in public education is deep and wide. Her new volume, Getting It Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing What's Broken, is a reflection of her many years of experience in all levels of public school education. Dr. Parrishs revealing self-examination allows the reader to identify their own biases and provides a model for redirection and improvement. Her writing style, with a minimum of educational jargon, draws the reader into a personal self-examination and a call to action. She asks teachers, staff, and everyone involved in the American education system to stand before a large mirror and examine their motives and attitudes. Those for whom the brilliance of world-class education is flickering are quite simply asked to step aside so the parade of knowledge-age excellence in schools can pass them by. It is now the morning of a new day when the doldrums of ineffective educational strategies can now be locked and sealed in vaults, never to occur again in this nations schools. -- Kenneth E. Nicholson, postsecondary education faculty member, Community College of Vermont and Vermont Technical College
Whether you are in the inside looking out or the outside looking in, Getting It Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing What's Broken by Dr. Patricia A. Parrish contains the keys to turning around the current state of the public education system in the United States. In my 30+ years as an educator, Ive never read a book that challenged and inspired me like Getting It Right. I'm recommending this book to every teacher, administrator, and parent I know to pass on the challenge to speak up for the children as Dr. Parrish has. Her compassion for students and teachers shines through in every word. -- Connie Sue Greiner, Ed.D., assistant professor, College of Education, Upper Iowa University

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Patricia Anne Duncan Parrish, Ed.D., has been active in K-12 public education for more than 30 years in instructional, diagnostic, and central office administrative positions in New York and in Texas. She is an instructor in the College of Education & Human Services, Texas A&M University-Commerce and serves as and serves as interim director, Center for Educator Certification & Academic Services, for the university. Dr. Parrish is the recipient of the Texas A&M University-Commerce Alumni Ambassador Award, the highest honor a department of the university bestows upon a graduate.