A Systems Approach to School Reform

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 138-142

  Mcadams, Richard P ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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2. Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991).
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5. Phillip C. Schlechty, Schools for the 21st Century (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990), p. 12.
6. Glass, op. cit.
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24. Schlechty, p. xvi.
25. Sarason, The Predictable Failure.