Jal Mehta with son Alex (Photo
by Cheryl Gray) Atul Gawande's book, Better: A
Surgeon's Notes on
Performance, became a favorite among Jal Mehta's students at the Ed School — they even made related t - shirts — because it embodies an attitude Mehta has long admired: Make do with what you have, and try to leave everything a bit better than you found it.
By moving to
performance measures that took into account how many pupils had been excluded, the «
surgeon - type» of leadership would soon be exposed, the report claims.