What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1412980496 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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With a strategy-builder chart for reinvesting and reallocating dollars, this unique resource applies brain research to the budgeting process to make decision making more objective.
Offers a unique approach in applying brain research to budget analysis Karen D. Olsen's WHAT BRAIN RESEARCH CAN TEACH ABOUT CUTTING SCHOOL BUDGETS offers a unique approach in applying brain research to budget analysis. By focusing on analytical thinking over emotion or tradition or even school politics, this provides keys to putting more effective strategies in place, and packs in chapters showing how to develop and direct a more methodical process.
Every school in America should have a copy in its professional library." (Linda Jordan, Associate Professor 2009-07-09)"Olsen addresses a current national issue with a focus on budget deficits and identifying a process for making decisions about budget cuts. Not only can and should brain research inform how and what we teach in the classroom, but it should be brought to bear in boardrooms and the school budgeting process. This book is brilliant and groundbreaking. We used this book in our
Her most recent book, What Brain Research Can Teach Us About Cutting School Budgets, is also published by Corwin Press. Her experience includes serving as executive director of the Mid-California Science Improvement Program (MCSIP), a ten-year effort funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to improve science