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          Schools Cannot Do It Alone tells of Jamie Vollmer, businessman and attorney, as he travels through through the land of public education..

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        1. Schools Cannot Do it Alone Jamie Robert Vollmer, Schools Cannot Do It Alone tells of Jamie Vollmer to find a way through the parts of our jobs that don.
        2. When James Donald Vollmer was born on 3 August , his father, Erwin Anthony Vollmer, was 28 and his mother, Katherine Aileen McGowan, was
        3. Schools Cannot Do It Alone tells of Jamie Vollmer, businessman and attorney, as he travels through through the land of public education.
        4. The Ever Increasing Burden on America's Public Schools BY JAMIE ROBERT VOLLMER - Download as a PDF or view online for free.
        5. Donald Robert Vollmer - to Birth: Indianapolis, Marion.

          6. The blueberry story and a lesson for a businessman

          “If I ran my business the way you people operate your schools, I wouldn’t be in business very long!”

          I stood on the stage of a high school auditorium filled with outraged teachers becoming angrier by the minute.

          Their initial icy glares had turned to restless agitation. My speech had entirely consumed sixty minutes of their precious inservice. You could cut the hostility with a knife.

          I represented a statewide group of business leaders who were determined to improve public schools.

          I was also president of an ice cream company that had become famous in the s when People Magazine chose our blueberry product as the “Best Ice Cream in America.”

          When it came to public schools, I was convinced of three things.

          First, they needed to change; they were archaic sorting mechanisms designed for the industrial age and out of step with the needs of our emerging “knowledge society.” Second, the people working inside the schools were the prima