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The Secret of TSL
By: William G. OuchieBook Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
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From the author of the acclaimed and influential Making Schools Work comes Untitled on Education, a guide to the revolutionary reforms that are changing public education in some of the nation’s biggest cities.
• Builds on the author’s growing reputation. Making Schools Work influenced New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s effort to radically decentralize the nation’s largest school system. Seven of the ten largest school districts in the u.S. have now implemented the decentralization championed in that book.
• Based on a groundbreaking study by the author. Ouchi studied 442 schools in Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York City, Oakland, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Seattle that have embraced school decentralization. He shows how decentralization has improved school performance as measured by standardized tests.
• Explains the key to school success. Principals must be given control of their budgets and other authority. When they are empowered, they allocate funds to increase the number of teachers and lower the Total Student Load (TSL) per teacher. TSL is the key factor in school performance. Principals with autonomy invariably lower their school’s TSL.
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| Title of eBook: The Secret of TSL | |
| Release Date: 09-01-2009 | |
| Publisher: Simon & Schuster |
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The Secret of TSL
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WHY GOOD SCHOOLS
ARE THE RESULT OF
GOOD MANAGEMENT
A Revolution Is Under Way
Virtually everyone who teaches in our K-12 schools is aware that most school districts today are run the way businesses were forty or fifty years ago: top-down, autocratic, and bureaucratic. Teachers and principals have to use books that are selected by someone in the central office who does not know their school; they must follow a daily schedule set by that central office; and all schools are assigned the same complement of teachers, attendance clerks, and so on -- according to the central office formula. Students have to attend the "zone" schools to which they are assigned by that same central office. That educational straitjacket is widely disliked by families and by teachers, but until recently, there has been no alternative.
Now, however, a quiet revolution is under way. That revolution allows each school in some districts the power to make more and more of its own budgetary, personnel, and instructional decisions and permits families to decide which public school their children will attend. Power is being shifted from central office staffs to families, principals, and teachers, and the results so far show that students are doing better, parents and teachers are more satisfied, and school districts may never be the same. It may be too early in this dramatic period of change to declare that top-down management is dead. Most of our nation's schools still report to strongly centralized staffs. The eight districts that have been pioneering this move to decentralization are inventing and learning as they go. Some of them have made costly missteps. Their story is not one of easy change -- it's a nua
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