Maximum Impact Education: Six Strategies to Raise Student Achievement - Hardcover

Maximum Impact Education is a landmark book with the promise of positive change for education in the 21st century. -- Patricia Nellor Wickwire, PhD, president of the American Association for Career Education The author makes clear that the `assembly line' mentality of `one size fits all' misses the point of what our students need. -- Lawrence D. Sporty, MD, psychiatrist/educator The story of how Santa Ana discovered the power of the `Business and Education Connection' is an important one for every town, city and community in America. -- David Elliott, president/CEO Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce Stimulating, inspiring and timely! A clever use of anecdotes, case studies, and research that delivers the goods on school reform. -- Susan Dixon, financial services executive Parents, educators, and policymakers at all levels can now read a playbook for crafting a new choice in education. A choice we have always known in our hearts, but never put into action...until now! -- Donnie Crevier, president, Crevier Classic Cars Jack's "New Investment High School" is not a theoretical model, but a practitioner's handbook. He deftly shows how and why his strategies can benefit all students -- Al Mijares, PhD, Orange County, CA, superintendent of schools

Have high schools killed the American Dream? Across America 857 unmotivated and unskilled students drop out of school each hour of every school day. Billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted. Solutions for this national disaster have eluded educators for decades. Until now. In Maximum Impact Education the talk stops and the answers begin. Educator and author Jack E. Oakes reveals for the first time six strategies that can transform American high schools. Oakes points out surprising ways to strengthen and reshape the future of any community, large or small. Detailed charts, original graphs and real-life insights show readers how to do the heavy lifting needed to change high schools, and renew the American Dream.