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Kearns, David Todd was born on August 11, 1930 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Wilfrid M. and Margaret May (Todd) Kearns.
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What's wrong with America's schools? Why can't we fix them? How did we wind up with dropout rates of 25 percent and graduates who can barely read and write? Why does the United States spend twice as much on education as the international average and wind up near the bottom of the barrel in global comparisons of student achievement? Why do we lag behind nations such as South Korea, Hungary, and Singapore? And how should we go about improving the situation? Answers to these questions lie at the heart of this volume. David T. Kearns and James Harvey contend we are fine-tuning failure. We have yet to break with the past in order to face a different and challenging future. Despite worshiping at the altar of "local control" we have managed to create cookie-cutter schools across the country. We have been sidestepping the transparent need for common expectations about what students should know and be able to do. Standards, the authors say, are not clear enough or high enough. Above all, we have met the enemy and it is us: all of us support "change" as long as someone else is changing. This book is a fascinating and provocative analysis of where we went wrong and what we need to do to get American education back on track. It defines the kind of education our kids deserve. It calls for a new definition of "public education" in which choice is taken for granted. And it outlines an action agenda to help parents and citizens make first-class schools truly their own. In the future, the authors argue, we should think of a public school as any other non-profit entity —capable of operating in the public interest free of the red tape now strangling public education. It should be paid for by the public and accountable to the public, with its charter or contract routinely revoked when it stops serving public purposes or fails to meet its performance goals.
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Kearns, David Todd was born on August 11, 1930 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Wilfrid M. and Margaret May (Todd) Kearns.
Bachelor of Science, University Rochester, 1952.
With International Business Machines Corporation, 1954-1971, vice president marketing operations, data processing division, until 1971. With Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, 1971-1991, group vice president for information systems, 1972-1975. Group vice president charge Rank Xerox and Fuji Xerox, 1975-1977, executive vice president international operations, 1977.
President, chief executive officer Xerox Corporation, 1977-1985, also director, president, chief operating officer, 1977-1982, president, chief executive officer, 1982-1985, chairman, chief executive officer, 1985-1990, chairman, 1990-1991, also chairman executive committee. Retired, 1991; deputy secretary education United States Department Education, Washington, since 1991. Board directors Rank Xerox Ltd., Time Warner, Inc., Fuji Xerox, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Dayton Hudson Corporation, Ryder Systems.
Chairman Tri-State United Way. Board trustees Ford Foundation.
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Author: Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive, 1988, Crossing the Bridge: Family, Business, Education, Cancer and the Lessons Learned, 2005. Co-author (with David A. Nadler): Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese, 1992. (with James Harvey) A Legacy of Learning: Your Stake in Standards and New Kinds of Public Schools, 2000.
Board visitors Graduate School Business, Duke University. Board directors University Rochester. Trustee National Urban League, Ford Foundation.
Chairman United Way Tri State. Member Pres'. Education Policy Advisory Committee With United States Naval Reserve, 1952-1954. Member American Philosophical Association, Business Roundtable, Council on Foreign Relations.
Married Shirley Virginia Cox, June 1954. Children– Katherine, Elizabeth, Anne, Susan, David Todd, Andrew.