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  BOOKHow to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control Jr. $30.14
About this product: Poor project results are all too common and result in dissatisfied customers, users, and project staff. With countless people, goals, objectives, expectations, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and deadlines to consider, it can be difficult to keep projects in focus and on track. How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control arms project managers with the tools and techniques needed to address these project challenges. The authors provide guidance to develop a project plan, establish a schedule for execution, identify project tracking mechanisms, and implement turnaround methods to avoid failure and regain control.  BOOKWhy Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground Professor Eric T. Freyfogle $28.21
About this product: Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T. Freyfogle in this thought-provoking book. Conservationists and environmentalists haven’t done their intellectual homework, he contends, and they have failed to offer an understandable, compelling vision of healthy lands and healthy human communities.
Freyfogle explores why the conservation movement has responded ineffectually to the many cultural and economic criticisms leveled against it. He addresses the meaning of good land use, describes the many shortcomings of “sustainability,” and outlines six key tasks that the cause must address. Among these is the crafting of an overall goal and a vision of responsible private ownership. The book concludes with a stirring message that situates conservation within America’s story of itself and with an extensive annotated bibliography of conservation’s most valuable voices and texts—important information for readers prepared to take conservation more seriously.  BOOKHealth Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System C. Rocky White $15.00
About this product:  BOOKFailing Peace: Gaza and athe Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Sara Roy $23.18
About this product: This book is the culmination of 20 years of research, fieldwork and analysis on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the impact of Israeli occupation. Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people -- especially in the U.S. -- understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. Roy's book provides an indispensable context for understanding why the situation remains so intractable. The focus of Roy's work is the Gaza Strip, an area that remains consistently neglected and misunderstood despite its political centrality. Drawing on more than two thousand interviews and extensive first-hand experience, Roy chronicles the impact of Israeli occupation in Palestine over nearly a generation. Exploring the devastating consequences of socio-economic and political decline, this is a unique and powerful account of the reality of life in the West Bank and Gaza. Written by one of the world's foremost scholars of the region, it offers an unrivalled breadth of scholarship and insight.
 BOOKHow to Rescue Failing Software Projects: Practical Proven Methods That Work Bernard Ong $24.95
About this product: BOOKThe Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It Paul Collier $28.99
About this product:  BOOKAmerica's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Since the Cold War (America's Recent Past) Warren I. Cohen $14.41
About this product:  BOOKDecentralization: Fantasies, Failings, and Fundamentals N. Dean Meyer $1.99
About this product:  BOOKTurning Around Failing Schools: Leadership Lessons From the Organizational Sciences Coby V. Meyers $28.00
About this product:  BOOKAngry Parents, Failing Schools Elaine K. McEwan $0.01
About this product: Recently my niece began 6th grade at a private school. She received about 7 different workbooks in addition to 2-3 hardback textbooks. I compared that curriculum to the curriculum used in the same district (Palm Beach, Florida) but at public schools. I agree that education has changed from "hard-core stick-to-the-objective" method to whole language, cooperative learning and higher order thinking skills. However, it isn't always the teachers' desire to do this. It often isn't the principal's or even the superintedent's fault. It lies with each state's and the Federal Boards of Education. Florida gives "bad" schools the title "critically low." These are derived from test scores. Last year I worked at one of the "critical schools." Our former commissioner of education, Frank Brogan, felt those schools weren't doing their job and sent in the troops. One such person ($$$$$$$$) was Dr. Bill Blokker (I hope his name is spelled correctly). Everyone at these schools was under alot of stress. Ironically, all the "critical" schools were in the welfare, low/no income areas with high discipline problems. That creates more stress. Schools often do things in ways that they don't want to in order to please the higher-ups. Add to that the unwillingness for parents to comprehend what goes on in classrooms. Unlike a manager in a fast-food chain, we can't hire and fire who we want, we don't have much say in how our franchise is run and we don't get paid to put up with the mental abuse which comes with working in various geographic areas (not necessarily secondary schools). Imagine running this franchise without napkins, catsup, hamburger, ice or cups. Better yet, imagine having to purchase all these items with your own, "slap-in-the-face" salary. For 9-10 different subjects, I have ONE textbook (I teach 2nd grade) and TWO workbooks which can be written in (all others must be copied). (Each child has their own, thank goodness.) Hey, I don't even have a "workable" curriculum for the areas of Science, Health or Social Studies (I do have a lasar disc and material which can be copied but takes 3 hours to plan one week's lesson). Add into that the potential for unfair administration, conflicting messages for methods of teaching (one day practice sheets are OK, the next day they are forbidden) and, of course, increased class size with lack of assistance. I do agree with the philosophies in this book but blaming the schools and those working in them isn't right. We only do what we are told to do with the information we are given. I love teaching. If I didn't, I wouldn't have taken the time to write what I did. We need to get back to the basics but that will take parents doing something major. It will also take more than writing a best-selling book. If you have anything to respond to, please write me. I only want the best for our children, but as the old saying goes, it takes a village. |
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