The trend towards accountability for public schools continues to grow creating new challenges for educational leaders. Demands for vouchers, charter schools, home schools and private education are creating increased competition for public schools. This toolkit offers information, skill development, examples and questions to guide school leaders when competing in the educational marketplace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first politician to recognize the power of radio. He appealed directly to the American people for support of his New Deal and for his foreign policy. Roosevelt's speeches and fireside chats were broadcast over networks only recently equipped with newsrooms. Listeners immediately learned of events they earlier would not have heard about for days. In those newsrooms, commentators began to interpret the news for average listeners, sometimes slanting it to reflect their own view. But it fell to a young star to demonstrate the full power of the medium. On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast brought widespread panic with its fictional newscast of an alien invasion. How Roosevelt used radio, how the news was reported, and the changes Welles caused are all detailed.

A magical, true story, Bob Brown's beguiling memoir takes readers behind the scenes of pivotal moments in recent history, where lessons learned at his grandmother's knee helped him shape America as we know it today. Called "a world-class power broker" by the Washington Post, Robert Brown has been a sought-after counsellor for an impressive array of the famous and powerful, including every American president since John F. Kennedy. But as a child born into poverty in the early twentieth century, Robert was raised by his grandmother to think differently about success. For example, "If you want to lead," she told him, "be invisible." And, "Before entering a room, let God in the room first." Fuelled by these lessons on humble, principled service, Brown went on to play a pivotal, mostly unseen role alongside the great and the powerful of our time: trailing the mob in 1950s Harlem with a young Robert F. Kennedy; helping the all-white corporate titans at Woolworth integrate their lunch counters; accompanying Coretta Scott King, at her request, to Memphis the day after her husband had been shot; advising Richard Nixon on how to defuse racially charged street demonstrations; becoming the only person allowed to visit Nelson Mandela in Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town. BECOMING MR. BROWN blends a heartwarming, historically fascinating account with memorable success principles that will speak to the Mr. Brown in all of us.

At age 75, Dr. Bob Brown is in the best shape of his life-with more energy than most people half his age But before achieving radiant health, he had to come face to face with debilitating disease and the failures of modern medicine-for his family, his patients, and himself. Why? The Question that Could Save Your Life exposes many of the obstacles blocking the road to ideal health and medical treatment-and how to overcome them. Dr. Bob shows you: - How to be proactive with your health, participate in medical decisions-and make sure your doctor is doing his or her job - Why treating symptoms only will never allow you to achieve optimum health - The astonishingly overlooked relationship between diet and disease Dr. Bob is not afraid to tackle corruption and dysfunction within the medical/pharmaceutical industry, including what he calls "legal drug abuse" and the incompetence of our educational system to teach true health. Fortunately for his readers, the goal of this book is not only to save lives-but to make those lives really worth saving.