Permission to Forget: And Nine Other Root Causes of America's Frustration with Education - Tenth Anniversary Edition

by Lee Jenkins

Overview

This book describes 10 decades of wasteful practices buried deep within U.S. schools. Today’s educators did not invent these wasteful practices; they inherited them. Five of the root causes are wasting time and five are wasting student potential. Ten years ago the first edition of Permission to Forget was published, and now this landmark anniversary edition is available. Its legacy of improvement is report after report from educators describing what happens in schools when these root causes are removed. It should not go unnoticed that root cause removal is free, unlike legislated reforms. Think about it: free! But teachers, principals, and district superintendents must collaborate in order to remove these root causes. Teachers can not remove them by themselves. Principals can not remove them by themselves. Superintendents can not remove them by themselves. Only together can teams of educators lead the removal of these 10 wasteful practices and provide America the education it desires.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873892988
Publisher:	ASQ Quality Press
Publication date:	04/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	225
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Lee Jenkins, PhD, authored Improving Student Learning: Applying Deming’s Quality Principles in Classrooms, First and Second Editions, Boot Camp for Leaders in K–12 Education: Continuous Improvement, and From Systems Thinking to Systematic Action, and edited the Continuous Improvement in the Classroom series for ASQ Quality Press. In addition he authored or coauthored It’s a Tangram World, Let’s Pattern Block It, Coin Stamp Mathematics, Fraction Tiles, The Balance Book, Geoblocks and Geojackets, and Math Manipulatives (Using the Ellison Letter Cutter). Lee works full time as an author, speaker, and consultant. He is the principal consultant for From LtoJ Consulting Group, Inc., located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Lee served in the public schools of California for 30 years, taught part at several universities, and taught full time at Oregon State University from 1978–1983. Lee is a member of the American Society for Quality and the American Association of School Administrators. Lee’s degrees are from Point Loma Nazarene University, California State University, San Jose, and The Claremont Graduate University. He and his wife Sandy recently celebrated their 49th anniversary. Lee can be contacted via e-mail at [e-mail], or phone [phone]. His Web address is: www.LBellJ.com.