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Who is the "GrayMan"? Gray Rinehart is the author of one book, Quality Education, and many articles, essays and papers. Check out The Legend of Gray's "alter ego" to find out more about the original "GrayMan" of Pawleys Island, South Carolina.
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FREE 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.
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.
FREE FICTION: "The Surfman." The market for historical short fiction is so small as to be almost nonexistent, so we didn't find a home for "The Surfman," a historical short story we originally wrote while at Orson Scott Card's 2004 Literary Boot Camp. This version is quite a bit shorter than the original version (which was 10,000 words in less than 24 hours, thank you); though, since the market for novel-length historical fiction is quite robust we might've had better luck if we expanded it into a novel. "The Surfman" is the story of a wounded Civil War veteran who joins the U.S. Life-Saving Service. The Life-Saving Service was the forerunner of the U.S. Coast Guard, and operated stations along most of the east coast to rescue shipwrecked sailors and passengers.
In the summer of 2009, we visited the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and it was fascinating to go up in the watch tower, visit the boat house, and look at the Lyle gun and other implements they used to rescue people from stranded vessels. We had learned earlier that surfmen from the Kitty Hawk station helped the Wright brothers set up for their flight attempts, so the USLSS played a large part in our vacation. Our visit to the station prompted us to send a copy of the story to the Chicamacomico staff in August 2009, with our compliments.
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.
All of these works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Feel free to share them, with proper attribution. If you like them (or not), and especially if you share them, let us know!
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