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“perry r rettig”

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  • Free Speech and Academic Freedom on the Modern College Campus

    Necessary Conversations with our Internal and External Communities

    by Perry R. Rettig ...
    Amidst a growing sense of distrust in formal education, this book argues for re-centering focus on the intent of higher education institutions.The shift in priorities on the modern college campus has resulted in universities removing tenure and cutting budgets. Perry R. Rettig reconsiders the history and evolution of American higher education and various forms of higher learning, and bridges these ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Assuming the Mantle of Leadership

    Real-Life Case Studies in Higher Education

    by Perry R. Rettig ...
    Assuming the Mantel of Leadership is a book of real-life case studies and activities that are contextual-based within the reader’s own setting and experience. The reader is expected to respond to the cases and the activities by utilizing and reflecting upon their own institution’s policies and context. The scope of exercises is intentionally broad in order to cover situations across academic ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Battles in the Trenches

    How Leaders in Academia can Learn from Elite Athletes and Coaches

    by Perry R. Rettig ...
    Educational leaders work within a system that does not best leverage attributes of their professional employees. This book focuses on three areas: leadership, motivation, and organization, as they related to educational leadership. Each of these areas has a particular chapter devoted to it. Each chapter begins with a review of the extant literature covering the theme. 40 elite, professional, and ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • What Brain Research Says about Student Learning

    How Parents and Teachers Can Capitalize on It for Student Success

    by Perry R. Rettig, Toni M. Bailey ...
    Parents want to work with their children’s teachers to help them succeed in school. What Brain Research Says about Student Learning provides parents and teachers the most recent findings in brain research and learning theory in a very approachable way. The reader will see how the child’s brain develops, learns, remembers, and creates new meaning and understanding. User-friendly discussions of ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Reframing Decision Making in Education

    Democratic Empowerment of Teachers and Parents

    by Perry R. Rettig ...
    American schools should be laboratories for modeling democratic concepts. However, our school systems are the antithesis of democratically run organizations. Teaching professionals, students and parents have very little power or genuine influence in decision making. Reframing Decision Making in Education begins by describing the current status of American schools and concludes with a description ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Shared Governance

    A More Meaningful Approach in Higher Education

    by Perry R. Rettig ...
    Shared Governance begins with the premise that today’s higher education governance practices have lost their focus and vitality. By re-examining the original suppositions of shared governance, along with an infusion of seminal democratic values and principles, a contemporary model is envisioned.From historical perspectives on shared governance, the book then takes a view of current governance ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Quantum Leaps in School Leadership

    by Perry R. Rettig ...
    This book theorizes that models based on the classical sciences have misguided educational leadership. Dr. Rettig sees the open dynamics of twentieth-century science - specifically, quantum mechanics - as a better and more natural model, and describes what he sees as a method of leadership light years beyond those of today. Dr. Rettig illustrates his erudite critique of the contemporary school ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Quantum University

    New Knowledge Requires New Thinking

    by Perry R. Rettig ...
    The Quantum University begins with an analysis of the current state of higher education organizational structure and leadership based on classical scientific approaches. It then focuses briefly why the classical approaches are inappropriate for human organization, such as universities.From this baseline, the book shares descriptions of quantum physics, ecology, chaos theory, and other newer ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Brain Research and Learning Theory

    Implications to Improve Student Learning and Engagement

    by Perry R. Rettig, Toni M. Bailey ...
    Virtually anyone who has attended college can attest to poor teaching approaches by very bright professors. Professors simply are not trained or taught how to best teach their content. They are not aware of learning theories, brain research, pedagogy and andragogy. They teach the way they were taught—their mimetic isomorphism.Not only will this book share insights from all these areas, but it will ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Enrollment Management

    Successful Approaches with Dwindling Numbers

    Edited by Perry R. Rettig ...
    University leaders, both senior leadership and boards of trustees, are desperately looking for answers to enrollment concerns across the nation. This book is written by current practitioners in the field. These people live enrollment management every day; they know the field. They can talk to lay leaders from a practitioner’s perspective. Readers will enjoy reading a book that helps them to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • We Have Never Been Woke

    The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

    by Musa al-Gharbi ...
    How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Origins of Woke

    Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics

    by Richard Hanania ...
    Richard Hanania has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down.Richard Hanania has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known writers in the nation in the last few years. In this book, he directs his attention to the culture war that has driven society ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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