“Government, Business, & Public Education: In Search of Excellence in the Approach to American Schooling” explores the applicability of business principles to government administration (specifically public education).  To read it, click here.

Review from Dr. Philip Gardner, University of Cambridge
“This is an impressive piece of work.  It addresses a familiar range of oppositional positions in education policy... but explores them not through a rehearsal of abstract ideas, but through a critical analysis of an influential management theory text.  The resulting discussion... is consistently focused and engaged and generates a sequence of thoughtful and carefully argued conclusions.

“One of the particular strengths of this piece is its preparedness to engage entrenched positions in constructive ways, and its identification of the complex nature of the demands placed upon contemporary education systems.  The organisation of the argument around a single text (informed by an appropriate and well utilized range of secondary reading) gives the essay notable coherence and force.  Throughout, the piece demonstrates a reasoned and clear-sighted analysis which does not predetermine its conclusions, but which displays a welcome intellectual openness... The analysis is consistently strong, confident and constructive and the written style of the work is particularly impressive, with fluent and incisive writing punctuated by a succession of pithy and striking observations and evaluations.

“The work is well constructed and organised throughout... A very impressive and original piece which was a pleasure to read.”