Making our Schools the Best in the World: Re-imagining Education Outside the Proverbial Box

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This book answers the questions on what must be done to meet the educational goals required to maintain our democratic form of government, provide the knowledge and skills required for our free enterprise system, and to give each individual, as Lincoln said, an unfettered start and fair change in the race of life. The old clich, outside the box, represents major changes and needed re-imagination of what education in our country must do to remain viable. No one has a magic wand to make such improvements just happen. What is needed is revolutionary program interventions that result in what all thinking citizens in America seek, a public school education program that is the best of all worlds.

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From the opening pages of the book, Making Education in America the Best of All Worlds, Dr. Scott Norton centers on the re-imagining of Americas educational system. From the outset, he carefully uncovers and discusses both the expressed successes and failures of education that have been set forth historically in the literature. The crucial need for major re-thinking of teacher and administrator preparation programs, school programming that effectively responds to the growing culture and social issues facing the nation, and the communitys collaborative involvement in the development of policy and practices is interestingly presented. The special features of the book include primary chapter goals, participative questions and quizzes, case studies and specific recommendations that keep the reader totally engaged in the new thinking of the discussions. This book is not just another reform book for it focuses on the re-imagining of new and challenging ways for making education in America truly the best of all worlds. -- Barry L. Fritch, M.Ed, educator, principal/learning leader, Broadmor Elementary School, Tempe, Arizona

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Dr. M. Scott Norton is a former school teacher, coordinator of curriculum, assistant superintendent and superintendent of schools. He has served as professor and vice-chairman of the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and as professor and chairman of the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies at Arizona State University where he serves as professor emeritus.