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Resources for the Manager

The Best Resources in Education, Management and Project Development
endorsed by The Liberty Group

Quotes

A collection of meaningful quotes and sayings associated with the greatest ideas in management and education. Best used when developing grants, position papers
and other "works in progress". (Please submit others below)

Links

Useful and clearmanagement and project development data on the Web: Volunteers in Technical Assistance; Stagecast for Children's Learning ; Technology in the Classroom Course Projects ; READING RESOURCE FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Integrating Central High: Melba Patillo's Story (Scholastic, Inc); Media Control by Noam Chomsky ;
Daily Discussion Questions on Newsmakers ; Slide Show on Managing Institutional Change (Please submit others below)

Working Papers

McLaughlin, Jack. 1997. Managing the Manager. Berkeley, California: The Liberty Group.
Liberty Group's mentor, Jack McLaughlin, is one of the nation's leading authorities on the challenges facing public school administrators today. In easy to understand language, he shares insights from his own rich experience in public education, offering advice that will help education managers approach their jobs more strategically. Liberty Group is making this working paper available to Web site visitors as a courtesy during the fall of 1997. The final text will be available by mail-order in January, 1998.

Texts

Bracey, Gerald W. 1997. Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the United States. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Bracey refutes, point by point, the popular arguments made by corporate political leaders who are promoting a "for-profit" agenda with their criticisms of public education.

Gertz, Dwight L. and Baptista, Joao P.A. 1995. Grow to Be Great: Breaking the Downsizing Cycle. New York: The Free Press.
Gertz and Baptista present research showing that the most successful companies in America, year after year, are those that find ways to grow rather than following the "downsizing" fad. Liberty Group has prepared a linked "diagnostic," based on Gertz and Baptista's diagnostic charts for maximizing growth.

McLaughlin, Jack. 1996. Videogames & Learning: The Power of Education with the Fun and Excitement of Entertainment and Technology. Doctoral dissertation. Department of Educational Administration, Teachers College, Columbia University. New York.
Liberty Group director Jack McLaughlin surveyed computer industry executives and multimedia designers to determine the best strategy for targeting videogames to the educational market. The philosophical motivation for McLaughlin's text is John Dewey's description of "serious play" as the ideal mental state for learning.

McLaughlin, Jack. 1996. Scotty First Mate. Fiction. New York.
Liberty Group director Jack McLaughlin at serious play.

Scott, Robert Bruce. 1984. The Use of Flowcharts and Logic to Teach Conversational Skills in Advanced ESL Classes. Masters Research. School of Education, University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas.
Liberty Group projects editor Robb Scott originally developed the Logical Conversation Method for ESL, but this flowcharts-based approach also helps educational managers gain greater awareness of the dynamics of their interactions with teachers, students and other community members.

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