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The Case Against Books

Textbooks, that is. I’d like to make the case that textbooks and memorization of content are at the heart of much of what is wrong with primary and secondary education in the US. I came to the United States at the age of 21. Of course my elementary and secondary schooling is now decades old and things have surely

March 4, 2014 Short URLbest practice, California school districts, education, government spending, primary and secondary education, public schools, school, school finance, schooling, student success, textbooksPublic Schools, Uncategorized

Parental Involvement: Cause or Correlation?

I was in a meeting about student success. We had broken into groups, and the question of parental involvement came up. “Were your parents involved in your school?” I half-whispered to a fellow director, born and raised in Hong Kong. “Not at all” she said. “Not mine either” said I (born and raised in another

March 3, 2014 Short URLachievement, achievement gap, best practice, California, California school districts, education, parental involvement, parental participation, public education, Public Policy, school, school district, school districts, school meeting, student engagement, student success, successPublic Schools, Uncategorized

Arson

FIRE ACCOUNTING Click on the link for my manual on school arson. I have dealt with three major school fires in my career. And believe me, there was no manual. The first thing I did ten years ago when confronted with my first school fire was to Google “accounting for school fires” and couldn’t find anything terribly useful. I

October 12, 2013 Short URLaccounting, arson, best practice, burning schools, business, computers, fire, fire accounting, Management, peocedures, school, school district, school firesDaily Work, Risk Management

Spreadsheet Best Practices

Many of us have worked with Excel spreadsheets for years and consider ourselves to be pretty good at them. Then I ran across the website Best Practices Modeling website. I learned a lot and I’ve been converting some of my more complicated models into the Best Practices system. My main takeaways are: Use separate, differently

May 27, 2013 Short URLbest practice, business, Excel, fiscal, modelling, school, spreadsheetExcel

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The Case Against Books

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