Renewing America's Progress: A Positive Solution to School Reform

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This book documents real improvements in learning, confidence, and morale, proven through the author's 15 years of research and experience. Rather than business or government imposing a solution to the problems in education, this is an inside solution developed by teachers, administrators and board members. Genck details a system of participative and results-oriented management to replace traditional authoritarian school administration and its attendant conflict with teamwork and accountability. Using the techniques detailed here, students and teachers can gain three more years of learning during eight years of school, as well as attain greater satisfaction, confidence, morale and cost-effectiveness. These are successful solutions already implemented in a variety of urban, suburban and rural districts, with a documented track record of improvement.

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"[Genck's] thoughtful presentation on managerial information and its relation to classroom performance suggests an often overlooked link in education that has been the basis of good corporate strategies for years. I hope that bringing innovative management techniques to public administrators and teachers can accomplish some of the positive goals that [Genck and I] both share."- James Allen, founder Booz, Allen & Hamilton
"Genck has made important and resultful contributions to improving management in public services and schools, where its practice was not very well accepted, through his devotion to management as a necessary tool in public affairs."- Kenneth Andrews Professor Emeritus Harvard Business School
"School reformers from President Bush on down tell us what schools ought to accomplish and how good schools should look. In all the hue and cry for better schools, however, Fred Genck is the only voice telling us how to go about it. For more than a decade, he has been telling school boards, administrators, and teachers how to elevate student performance and public confidence through some basic principles of good management. In Renewing America's Progress, he aims his message at a broader audience and demonstrates why good school management is worth whatever it costs."-Kenneth Andrews Professor Emeritus Harvard Business School
"The work [Genck has] done to introduce public administrators and school boards to good management becomes more and more important as public concern about the quality of education intensifies. [He] shows how this concern can be translated through management into more effectiveness."- Jerry Glaub Assistant Executive Director Illinois Association of School Boards

Author Bio

FREDRIC H. GENCK is Managing Director of the Institute for Public Management in Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Improving School Performance (Praeger, 1983) and Effective Schools Through Effective Management (1978).