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View Article  De/Reconstructing Our Youth Support System
Pay me now or pay me more later.   more »
View Article  The Northwest Education Cluster: A Promising Sign in the Trade Group Space
Maybe regional oprganization is the way for school improvement providers to organize the new education industry.   more »
View Article  The Parthenon Group - Strategic Consulting at the Front End of District Improvement
The alternative may be Alvarez and Marsal at the back end.   more »
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View Article  Maverick Superintendents and the Challenge of Recouping Customer Acquisition Costs
What can school improvement providers learn from their experience with Paul Vallas? Should Edison or Victory Schools follow him to New Orleans?   more »
View Article  Parsing the Qualified Lead: (II) Establishing Value and Comparing Options
If you know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide - and have determined a few basic rules of thumb from your own experience - you can start thinking strategically about investments in marketing research.   more »
View Article  Duval County School Board Shows What’s Wrong With Many Districts' Procurement Policies
Here’s where we need to draw the ethical line. It's not the size of the bribe that matters, but breaching the duty of loyalty to students, teachers and taxpayers.   more »
View Article  When Worlds Collide: (V) Enter The Academic Consultant
Your editor has no doubt that the academic consultants and Administration officials were engaged in a massive conflict between their duty to carry out NCLB faithfully as office holders or their agents and their personal loyalty to ideology, pedagogy or financial self-interest. Still, when the roles of the officials and the academics are untangled it is possible to see how each might honestly rationalize their actions.   more »