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Turnaround Leadershipreviewed by Steve Markbreiter - November 13, 2006 Title: Turnaround Leadership Author(s): Michael Fullan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco ISBN: 0787969850 , Pages: 144, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com Whenever I begin a book about school reform, I approach the process by thinking: What can this volume add to a rapidly growing library of works on the subject? Will this really make a difference?
In Turnaround Leadership, Michael Fullan shares his latest thinking on school reform. While the book raises many familiar issues in this area, it benefits from two positive attributes: big thinking and conciseness. In this small volume (97 pages), Fullan has set out ambitious goals, which he calls the real reform agenda.
Fullans agenda is raising the income bar while closing the gap between the richest and the poorest (p. 7). He draws on Richard Wilkinsons (2005) research on the income of social inequality, which found that low material living conditions has less impact on the public than low social status, which has corrosive social consequences (p. 3). For Fullan, this leads to a double whammy (p. 14)... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Steve Markbreiter
National Academy Foundation E-mail Author STEVE MARKBREITER is Senior Director with the National Academy Foundation (NAF), which works to reform high school education throughout the country through school-community partnerships and career-themed instruction. His responsibilities include the coordination and development of NAF’s support and technical assistance materials, which includes managing curriculum development and delivery, professional development, and technical assistance resources for schools and districts. Previously, Steve managed the Academy of Finance program, including communications with existing programs, review, approval and support of new program sites, and technical assistance to existing sites. Steve received his doctorate in Educational Organization and Leadership from Columbia University, Teachers College, as well as a J.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining NAF in 2001, Steve was a Social Studies teacher at Washington Irving High School and Port Chester High School, in New York.
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