Free Nonfiction Downloads
We have made some of Gray's work available for download, for those who may be interested. We will add more, at unspecified and unpredictable intervals.
FREE BOOK EXCERPT from Quality Education
Gray's book, Quality Education, was published in 1993 by the American Society for Quality Control's Quality Press. It examined how continuous quality improvement ideas, tools, and techniques could be applied to the problems and processes of education. The rights to the book reverted to Gray when ASQC allowed it to go out of print, so we offer the introduction here under Creative Commons.
Download PDF: Quality Education -- Introduction
As Gray wrote in the Preface (not part of this download), "I believe this book had to be written by someone. Some may argue, perhaps rightfully so, that the someone should not have been me.... So be it. I believe the state of education today is such that someone on the outside, looking in, had to question in ignorance what the experts have overlooked in familiarity." That seems to be as true in 2010 as it was when he wrote it in 1991.
FREE ESSAY: "An Unsolicited Proposal for the Secretary of Education."
If the U.S. Department of Education really is the central repository of educational excellence, why doesn't it operate a school? Gray suggests that the Education Department should be able to staff a charter school and make that school the best in the nation -- and a model for other schools to emulate.
Download PDF: "An Unsolicited Proposal"
FREE ESSAY: "Ignore the Tour Guides, if You Can."
Gray wrote this essay when he observed that a lot of worship bands in contemporary churches seemed to be performing -- calling attention to themselves -- rather than leading worship. Since he took over as the worship leader at North Cary Baptist Church in January 2009, the topic has grown even more important to him -- and he feels a great responsibility to help the congregation worship while staying as nearly invisible as possible.
Download "Ignore the Tour Guides"
Creative Commons
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