Teachers As Owners: A Key to Revitalizing Public Education

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"What if teachers were owners, not employees" Teacher-ownership is a revolutionary way to put excitement and meaning back into the teaching profession and to revitalize public education. This text demonstrates how being an owner rather than an employee can give teachers control of their professional activity, including full responsibility and accountability for creating and sustaining high-performing learning communities. It presents examples of teacher-ownership in practice and provides practical models for those who would like to experience the professional satisfaction found in ownership.

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While [others] diagnose the disease, Edward J. Dirkswager's Teachers as Owners provides a cure. Teachers as Owners offers much needed hope for reforming schools in ways that will empower teachers, and ultimately lead to innovations as yet undreamt of. -- Robert Maranto, 21st Century Chair in Leadership, University of Arkansas; Fayetteville School Board, 2015-2020; editor, Journal of School Choice * Ncsc Review *

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Edward J. Dirkswager is an associate at the Center for Policy Studies, St. Paul, Minnesota. He was a health care business executive and consultant with a long-term involvement in public education. He worked on a task force of the Minnesota Business Partnership that recommended the legislative enactment allowing students freedom of choice among public schools.