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Schools Cannot Do It Alone
Contributor(s): Vollmer, Jamie Robert (Author)

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 ISBN: 0982756909     ISBN-13: 9780982756904
Publisher: Vollmer and Associates Inc.
OUR PRICE: $23.70  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Administration - General
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
Dewey: 371.010
LCCN: 2010927915
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.80 lbs) 230 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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Schools Cannot Do It Alone tells of Jamie Vollmer, businessman and attorney, as he travels through through the land of public education. His encounters with blueberries, bell curves, and smelly eighth graders lead him to two critical discoveries. First, we have a systems problem, not a people problem. We must change the system to get the graduates we need. Second, we cannot touch the system without touching the culture of the surrounding town; everything that goes on inside a school is tied to local attitudes, values, traditions, and beliefs. Drawing on his work in hundreds of districts, Jamie offers teachers, administrators, board members, and their allies a practical program to secure the understanding, trust, permission, and support they need to change the system and increase student succes
 
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