Vermont Chamber of Commerce Business Education Partnership

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Cynthia W. Shelton
Copies: 2
Pages: 88
This book provides practical examples or how to begin and proceed putting together partnerships, with the belief that partnerships support good education in schools and is important part of improving schools.

Executive Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Robert D. Herman & Richard D. Heimovics, 1991
Copies: 1
Pages: 140
ISBN: 1555423345
This book offers detailed guidance on making this key partnership more productive, providing insights into the causes of inadequate board performance and suggestions for understanding and building on people's motivations for serving on boards.

Building Community in Schools

Thomas J. Sergiovanni, 1994
Copies: 1
Pages: 220
ISBN: 1555425712
The book explains the need for face-to-face communities of educators who join together in behalf of students. It provides examples to teachers, parents, and administrators what they can do to rebuild it.

Finish for the Future; Exemplary Partnerships for School Dropout Prevention

Jane A. Asche, Ed.D., 1993
Copies: 1
Pages: 150
This book discusses high school dropouts, why they drop out, who is most likely to drop out, and the drop out rates. The book also talks about many programs from around the country that are designed to reduce the drop out rate.

The School-to-Work Curriculum Guide

VSAC/Lake Champlain School-to-Work Council, 2001
Copies: 1
Pages: 50
This guide is broken into four topics: School-to-Work Units, School-to-Work Plans and Stories, Linking Learning to Life, Acknowledgements and Contact Information.

50 Important Things You Can Do To Improve Education

Susan Kranberg, 1993
Copies: 1
Pages: 190
This book talks about the possibilities for business/education partnerships, and also covers practical information about how to put them in place.

Statewide Restructuring of Education; A Handbook for Business
Education Commission if the States, 1990
Copies: 1
Pages: 20
The purpose of this handbook is to provide practical information in support of efforts to change the education system fundamentally and structurally. The belief is that by deepening the involvement if businesses in the education system, we can all work together to improve and change the current trends.

The Employer Participation Model
National Employer Leadership Council, 1996
Copies: 1
Pages: 16
This is a program model developed for employers of all sizes to participate in School-to-Work activities. This model allows them to evaluate resources and target areas of opportunity.

The Employer Connection: State Strategies for Building School-to-Work Partnerships

National Governors Association, 1996
Copies: 1
Pages: 20
This publication describes examples of strategies that Governor's and other policymakers are using to promote employer involvement in school-to-work partnerships. The Association hopes that these strategies will lay the groundwork for developing even greater public/private collaboration to help young Americans find career success and to help U.S. companies achieve prosperity.

Performance-Based Student Assessment: Challenges and Possibilities
National Society for the Study of Education, 1996
Copies: 1
Pages: 300
This is the product of many authors' accounts of the current status of this development in the field of assessment. It covers the benefits as well as the major problems in using this approach.

When It's Your Own Child: A Report on Special Education from the Families who use it.
Public Agenda, 2002
Copies: 1
Pages: 35
ISBN: 1889483761
This booklet focuses on the view of parents with children in special education programs within schools. It covers topics related to their feelings toward the success/failure of these programs, testing regulations, and their satisfaction with the school's programs.

Higher Skill; A Chamber Guide to Workplace Literacy
Center for Workplace Preparation, 2002
Copies: 1
Pages: 15
This is a pamphlet distributed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that is being used as a first step in a national campaign to assess the critical issue that current research has pointed out, which is that 48% of American workers lack sufficient skills to perform the basic functions of their jobs.

Charting New Territory: Early Implementation of the Workforce Investment Act
Public/Private Ventures, 2002
This booklet covers the progress of the Workforce Investment Act. The purpose of the WIA is to provide workforce investment activities through statewide and local workforce investment systems that increase employment, retention and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by participants and improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare dependency and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the nation.

Federal Research Resources: A Process for Setting Priorities
National Science Board, 2001
Copies: 1
Pages: 150
This report contains the findings of a study on budget coordination and priority setting for government-funded research. It covers the findings and recommendations from the National Science Board.

Keeping Competitive: A Chamber Report on Hiring, Training, and Retaining Qualified Workers
Center for Workplace Preparation, 2001
Copies: 1
Pages: 16
This is a information gathered from 1800 surveyed employers regarding their current perspectives and challenges related to hiring, training, retaining, and advancing qualified employees in today's economy.

Educational Restructuring and the Community Education Process

Larry E. Decker & Valerie A. Romney, 1992
Copies: 1
Pages: 140
This book was derived from many studies in the early 1990s and what their hopes were for the year 2000. It discusses aspects of restructuring community and schools to benefit the education process for our youth.

Cynthia Parsons, 1991
Copies: 1
Pages: 111
ISBN: 088071869
In this book the author shows how youth can learn by both studying and doing working in community enterprises and agencies while studying relevant subject matter.

Moving America to the Head of the Class

Education Excellence Partnership
Copies: 1
Pages: 15
This is a small pamphlet listing 50 ways that you can help America reach future education goals.

The Best of Both: Community Colleges and Community-Based Organizations Partner to Better Serve Low-Income Workers and Employers

Public/Private Ventures, 2002
Copies: 1
Pages: 47
This booklet covers what is being done by community colleges and other community organizations to educate low-income workers into making a wages that are parallel to their needs.

EduCrisis! What to Do When Public Schools Fail

James T. Evans, 1999
Copies: 1
Pages: 245
ISBN: 0964038811
This book discusses what has gone wring in public schools, and why. It also discusses alternative forms of education and is filled with interesting facts and statistics surrounding these topics.

Putting People First: How We Can All Change America

Bill Clinton / Al Gore, 1992
Copies: 1
Pages: 232
ISBN: 0812921933
This book details what Clinton and Gore promised to do for America if sent to Washington. The book discusses a new economic strategy, as well as touching on subjects such as education, health care, crime and drugs and national security.

Leadership is an Art

Max DePree, 1989
Copies: 1
Pages: 148
ISBN: 0440503248
Max DePree is chairman of the board of directors of Herman Miller Inc., the primary innovator in the furniture business for 60 years and regularly included among the top 25 firms on Fortune's list of the most admired companies in the United States. This book teaches what it takes to be a true leader, and is praised by leaders as high up the ranks as Bill Clinton.

Is There A Public For Public Schools?

David Mathews, 1996
Copies: 1
Pages: 77
In this book, David Mathews reports the results of more than a decade of research studies carried out by the Kettering Foundation on the relationship between the public and public education, and the deterioration of this relationship. In the final chapter proposes a strategy for interested individuals based on the assumption that healthy community life is essential to good public schools.

The Principal's Role in Shaping School Culture

U.S. Department of Education, 1991
Copies: 2
Pages: 110
This book identifies the strategies for effective principalship. It teaches how to weave academic excellence into the fabric of school life and suggests a practical course to build a lively, cooperative spirit within the school.

Reinventing Education: Entrepreneurship in America's Public Schools

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., 1994
Louis Gerstner (Chairman and CEO of IBM) wrote this book, along with concerned colleagues to make a solid case that public schools can be reclaimed and transformed into the great institutions they once were. It is a guide to creating dynamic schools worthy of our children.

The Self-Renewing School

Bruce Joyce, James Wolf & Emily Calhoun, 1993
Copies: 1
Pages: 95
This book follows a district restructuring committee searching for ways to improve student learning. Those involved are surprised to find that some popular innovations don't actually improve learning, and that some really do work. With the community and school working together they all become students of school improvement.

Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive

David T. Kearns & Denis P. Doyle, 1988
David Kearns (Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corp.) and Denis Doyle (Senior Research Fellow, Hudson Institute) teamed up to challenge business leaders, policymakers, and concerned citizens to support a bold plan for education reform. The present a six-point program that: allows children and parents to chose which school to attend; abolishes the traditional grading structure; allows schools to be open year rounds for children who need or want to go all year, just to name a few of their ideas.

Using Quality to Redesign School Systems: The Cutting Edge of Common Sense

Peggy Siegel & Sandra Byrne, 1994
Copies: 1
Pages: 155
This book documents some of those lessons and processes already at work in companies and school systems across America, serving as a valuable resource to those serious about redesigning educational systems and addressing many of the critical issues our principals, teachers, and administrators face everyday.

Changing School from the Inside Out

Robert L. Larson, 1992
Copies: 1
Pages: 150
ISBN: 0877629013
This book focuses on small-scale change in high schools. The three main objectives areto enlarge the knowledge base about planned and naturally recurring small-scale change in the site-managed building, also to provide educators with simple operational concepts and practical techniques the will allow them to become better at effecting and managing change within the hectic, pressured environment of schools, and finally to assist the reader in developing or refining his or her theory of changing.

Resiliency in Schools: Making it Happen for Students and Educators

Nan Henderson & Mike Milstein, 1996
Copies: 1
Pages: 135
ISBN: 0803963521
This book touches on subjects such as: Why resiliency is so important; Classroom and schoolwide strategies to move students from "at-risk" to resilient; How to integrate resiliency building with educational reform, and many other important and useful topics.

Thriving On Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution

Tom Peters, 1987
Copies: 1
Pages: 550
ISBN: 0394567846
This book is about a necessary revolution and challenges everything that we knew about managing. The book is broken down into very specific practices, and gives you detailed ways to carry out this management revolution.

Out-of-School, Out of Luck? Demographic and Structural Change and the Labor Market Prospects of At Risk Youth

John Hopkins University, 1997
Copies: 1
Pages: 190
This book was prepared as a comprehensive study of youth labor market problems and policies. It examines the labor market problems of and prospects for the nations non-enrolled young adult population.

Principle-Centered Leadership

Stephen R. Covey, 1990
Copies: 1
Pages: 334
ISBN: 0671792806
This book focuses on a long-term, inside-out approach to developing people and organizations. It offers insights and guidelines that can help you apply these principles both at work and at home, by increasing appreciation of the importance of building personal and professional relationships in order to enjoy a more balanced, more rewarding, more effective life.

Guide to Proposal Writing

The Foundation Center, 1993
Copies: 1
Pages: 189
This book is a basic, how-to book with insider advice on proposal writing.

Holding Effective Board Meetings

American Association of School Administrators / National School Boards Association, 1984
Copies: 1
Pages: 100
This book covers the details essential to productive board meetings. IT answers questions such as: How can we make sure that meeting time is well-spent?; How can we avoid surprises?; The advice and tested methods for effective management of meeting comes from superintendents and board members across the country.

School's Out: A Radical New Formula for the Revitalization of America's Educational System

Lewis J. Perelman, 1992
Copies: 1
Pages: 360
ISBN: 0380717484
This is a controversial book that calls for a complete overhaul of the American educational system while laying the groundwork for a complete revolution in learning.

A Different Kind of Classroom

Robert J. Marzano, 1992
Copies: 1
Pages: 189
ISBN: 0871201925
This book describes the Dimensions of Learning Program, a comprehensive K-12 instructional framework that teachers can use to improve the way they plan instruction, design curriculum, and assess student performance.

National Issues In Education; The Past is Prologue

John F. Jennings, 1993
Copies: 1
Pages: 260
ISBN: 087367460X
This book presents diverse perspectives on current major education issues on a national level.

Inside Learning Network Schools

Marilyn Herzog, 1997
Copies: 1
Pages: 340
ISBN: 1572741295
This book is written by educators actively involved in The Learning Network, which is a development initiative that focuses on literacy and the growth of skillful teachers. The contributors are superintendents, principals, district administrators, and teachers. They explore the impact this initiative has had at the individual, classroom, school, and district level.

Teachers as Agents of Change: A New Look at School Improvement

Allan A. Glatthorn, 1992
Copies: 1
Pages: 210
ISBN: 0810618532
This book helps teachers to become involved in shaping their schools in the very ways they want to be involved: by attending closely to teachers, curriculum, and the learning of their students.

Education Reform in the '90s

Chester E. Finn & Theodor Rebarber, 1992
Copies: 1
Pages: 210
ISBN: 0028970950
This book is written by leading educators, under the joint auspices of the Educational Excellence Network of Vanderbilt University and the National Conference of State Legislatures. It provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the new restructuring phenomenon and places it in the context of the history of American education and its previous cycle of reform.

The Forgotten Half Revisited

Samuel Halperin, 1998
Copies: 1
Pages: 182
ISBN: 1887031634
This report reviews what out nation has accomplished for late-adolescents and young adults (especially ages 18-24) in the last ten years (when the previous book was published).

Aggravating Circumstances: A Status Report on Rudeness in America

Public Agenda, 2002
Copies: 1
Pages: 59
This report polls Americans about their feelings on attitudes of other Americans, as well as themselves. It focuses on topics such as road rage, business issues and raising children.

What to Know and Where to Go: A Parent's Guide to No Child Left Behind, A New Era in Education

U.S. Department of Education, 2002
Copies: 1
Pages: 32
This is a guide that covers the No Child Left Behind law that President Bush signed in January of 2002. It goes over the specifics of the law, how it will really affect our children and their education, as well as teachers.