Description: Examines, from four organizational perspectives, Virginias Manassas Park City School's ten-year turnaround.
Brief description: Daniel L. Duke is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including Education Empire: The Evolution of an Excellent Suburban School System and coeditor (with Margaret Grogan, Pamela D. Tucker, and Walter F. Heinecke) of Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability: The Virginia Experience, both also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"This short book covers the broad sweep of real life, from politics and facilities to instruction and learning." -- The School Administrator
"Virtually all states have moved toward deregulation and decentralization in an effort to require local districts to forge need-specific improvements. Historically, superintendents have been instruments of change and not reform architects. This book both exposes new realities of practices and provides an excellent example of one school district's journey." -- Theodore J. Kowalski, coauthor of Effective Communication for School Administrators: A Necessity in an Information Age