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Authors: Irving H. Buchen
ISBN-13: 9781578861354, ISBN-10: 1578861357
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Irving H. Buchen

Irving H. Buchen is Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director of International Programs for IMPAC University, a member of the doctoral business faculty of Capella University, a Senior Principal of Canis Learning Systems, and training editor of The Futurist, the official publication of the World Future Society.

Book Synopsis

Irving H. Buchen projects the future of public education for the next 25 years as he identifies and examines the major drivers of change, profiles all the critical educational constituencies, and offers a number of common sense solutions to current and subsequent problems.

Pt. 1	The past, the present, and the future	1
1	The record of the past	2
2	The laws of the future	9
3	The system of systems	15
Pt. 2	Teachers as major players	25
4	Hiring teachers	26
5	The teacher culture	33
6	The economics of education 101	48
7	Money and teachers	57
8	Teachers and technology	65
Pt. 3	Educational administrators as major players	73
9	Leadership expectations and job descriptions	74
10	Survival skills for new principals	81
11	Principals as instructional leaders	83
12	Models of integrative leadership	89
13	The principal as Plato	97
14	The principal as CLO (Chief Learning Officer)	105
15	The principal as broker	109
16	The principal as outsourcer : economically driven school reform	114
Pt. 4	Parents as major players	123
17	Parents and educational change	124
18	Teacher-parent partnerships	137
Pt. 5	Students as major players	141
19	Parents and school reform	142
20	The student-centered curriculum	146
Pt. 6	Introduction to the major drivers of change	155
21	The impact of the global economy on education and work	156
22	Competition and school choice	171
23	Accountable accountability : curing the cure	187
24	Research-based learning	194
25	Optimizing curricula	201
26	Turnaround : what education has to offer business	217
27	Accountability and role change : persuading lone rangers to be team players	221
28	The world citizen : facilitating a future global identity for students	227
Pt. 7	Teacher scenarios	231
29	A major change takes hold	232
30	"Who is in charge?"	239
31	The teacher leadership collaborative : a structural scenario	245
32	TMs (technology managers)	249
33	The future may be in the past : creating a universal curriculum	255
Pt. 8	Administrator scenarios	261
34	The principal and strategic conversations	262
35	The MBA principal	268
36	Principals as futurists	274
Pt. 9	Parent scenarios	281
37	The coffee network	282
38	The educational planning clearinghouse	288
39	Electronic partnerships	293
Pt. 10	Student scenarios	299
40	Tiny tot independent learning	300
41	K-16	303
42	Small is better	309
Pt. 11	Solution summaries	313
43	Open-ended conclusions	314

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