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Education is Everybody's Business: A Wake-Up Call to Advocates of Educational Change

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Evidence shows that disappointment in public education and its traditional management system has led to the creation of alternative education systems that are doing a better job of serving diverse student populations. The disenchantment of educators with the prescriptive, bureaucratic nature of much of the educational administrative system has grown since No Child Left Behind. Excellent teachers and administrators have left the profession because of the public education system, and there is increased sentiment to update formal education. We seem to be at a crossroads where public demand and action for educational change and updating is the only way reform can be accomplished.

In Education Is Everybody's Business, Berenice D. Bleedorn reminds readers of the crucial value of creative, critical, systemic, and futuristic thinking in an integrative, interactive global system. Our social and political institutions depend upon the capacity of both leadership and followership for complex, fair-minded thinking. Both the public and educators need to be catalysts for change. They need to understand that programs and strategies for effective learning for a wide range of students are available: that the impetus for such institutional change depends upon their initiative: and that new directives require the powerful voice of the informed electorate in search of positive change. This book will be useful to those seeking information for more effective operations and those committed to serving the learning needs of students.