Yo! Joey! is a collection of colorful career highlights from one of America's most outspoken school superintendents. Joe Batory takes his readers on a whirlwind ride of multiple confrontations and wondrous joys in a book about public education like no other. Hostile taxpayer groups, state governors, corporate America, and news media, Washington and Pennsylvania bureaucracies, clerics, Nazis and even Howard Stern...Joe Batory publicly battled all of them during his 15 year run as superintendent of one of Pennsylvania's largest and most diverse school systems. His narration takes turns being funny, irreverent, angry and tender, and is often didactic. It bares the soul of a leader.
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A great read for public school administrators, but also for anyone interested in saving America's public schools. Few war stories are left untold, and fewer still politicians are left untouched. Real enjoyment! -- Dr. Dennis Harken, Executive Director, Montgomery County (PA) Intermediate Unit
Yo! Joey! provides an insight into a school superintendent who is unafraid to stand up and challenge those who would attempt to weaken public education for their own political and personal gain. The vignettes recounted here--some poignant, some humorous, some emotionally defiant--should be "must" reading for current and future school administrators, but also for anyone in the general public interested in what a real educational leader looks like! -- Dr. James Shields, Former Executive Director, Delaware County Intermediate Unit (PA)
Yo! Joey! was a true pleasure to read...smooth, professional quality to the writing, and passionate convictions and moral intelligence underlying every word. The book is ironic without being bitter, "in your face" without being offensive, and definitely possessed of a powerful yet sensitive and empathetic persona with a hard-hitting series of messages, that are profoundly stated. Joe Batory's convictions about education are filled with compassion and insight. -- Roberta Tennant, President, Ankh Press
Yo! Joey! provides an insight into a school superintendent who is unafraid to stand up and challenge those who would attempt to weaken public education for their own political and personal gain. The vignettes recounted here--some poignant, some humorous, some emotionally defiant--should be "must" reading for current and future school administrators, but also for anyone in the general public interested in what a real educational leader looks like! -- Dr. James Shields, Former Executive Director, Delaware County Intermediate Unit (PA)
Yo! Joey! was a true pleasure to read...smooth, professional quality to the writing, and passionate convictions and moral intelligence underlying every word. The book is ironic without being bitter, "in your face" without being offensive, and definitely possessed of a powerful yet sensitive and empathetic persona with a hard-hitting series of messages, that are profoundly stated. Joe Batory's convictions about education are filled with compassion and insight. -- Roberta Tennant, President, Ankh Press
About the Author
Joe Batory was the Upper Darby (PA) School District's Superintendent of Schools from 1984 to 1999 when he retired. He has been recognized for his numerous accomplishments as a public school leader with the Distinguished Lifetime Service Award from the American Association of School Administrators (2000). Additionally, in 1990, he was named as one of The Executive Educator 100, a group of only 100 outstanding school leaders chosen from North America's 300,000 school administrators by a distinguished panel of independent jurors, all expert in the field.
Batory was cited with the Pennsylvania Music Educators 1997 Superintendent of the Year award for his outstanding support of music programs in public schools. He has also received the 1998 Friend of Journalism award from the Pennsylvania School Press Association.
His service to children has been recognized with other awards from the Rotary Club of Upper Darby (1999 and 1989), the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce (1999), the Study Councils of the University of Pennsylvania (1999), the Delaware County Intermediate Unit (1999), the Patriotic Order of Sons of America (1992), the Upper Darby Teachers Association (1999), Transport Workers Union Local 289 (1999), the Upper Darby Administrators and Supervisors Association (1999), the Upper Darby Educational Support Personnel (1999), the Drexel Hill Baptist Church (1999), and the National School Public Relations Association (1989).
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Yo Joey!,
By John H. Nawn (Upper Darby, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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A must read for anyone interested in public education. Joe Batory gives the reader an insiders look about what really happens in the day-to-day life of a superintendent. Joe's love and concern for children comes alive in this book. As a member of the Upper Darby School Board who served with Joe, it is a pleasure to recommend this book. This outspoken educator took on all critics of public education to advance the cause of public education.
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Yo Joey!,
By John H. Nawn (Upper Darby, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Yo! Joey! (Paperback)
A must read for anyone interested in public education. Joe Batory gives the reader an insiders look about what really happens in the day-to-day life of a superintendent. Joe's love and concern for children comes alive in this book. As a member of the Upper Darby School Board who served with Joe, it is a pleasure to recommend this book. This outspoken educator took on all critics of public education to advance the cause of public education.
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