Case Studies on Educational Administration
ISBN: 9780205412082 | 0205412084
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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This book immerses prospective administrators in the realities of practice and decision-making through the use of a wide range of open-ended case studies. Effective practice in school administration involves making decisions about school management and reform, including issues such as state deregulation, district decentralization, and school restructuring. Leaders need to think beyond management and consider how to affect school culture, professional development, and changing populations. The cases in this book will help leaders address those i... MORE
| Preface | v | ||
| Matrix of Topics by Case Number | vii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | (11) | |
| CASE 1 Another Federal Intrusion | 12 | (6) | |
| CASE 2 What Alternative School Concept Is Best? | 18 | ... MORE | |
| CASE 3 A Bully's Threat | 25 | (8) | |
| CASE 4 Lounge Talk | 33 | (8) | |
| CASE 5 Get Rid of the Sloppy Assistant Principal | 41 | (9) | |
| CASE 6 Let the Committee Decide | 50 | (9) | |
| CASE 7 A Principal Clashes with the Culture | 59 | (7) | |
| CASE 8 How about School-Based Management? | 66 | (8) | |
| CASE 9 Getting Back to Basics | 74 | (9) | |
| CASE 10 A Matter of Honor | 83 | (11) | |
| CASE 11 An Invisible Superintendent | 94 | (9) | |
| CASE 12 Captain Punishment | 103 | (9) | |
| CASE 13 An Ambitious Assistant Principal | 112 | (6) | |
| CASE 14 A One-Trick Principal | 118 | (9) | |
| CASE 15 A Maverick Board Member | 127 | (7) | |
| CASE 16 Excessive Punishment or Just Politics? | 134 | (7) | |
| CASE 17 The Passive Principal | 141 | (8) | |
| CASE 18 A Disillusioned Assistant Principal | 149 | (7) | |
| CASE 19 Dissention over the Vocational School | 156 | (7) | |
| CASE 20 In-School Suspension: An Effective Idea? | 163 | (8) | |
| CASE 21 Let's Not Rap | 171 | (8) | |
| CASE 22 Is the Devil Teaching Spelling? | 179 | (8) | |
| CASE 23 Decentralization and Inequality | 187 | (12) | |
| CASE 24 Who Creates the School's Vision? | 199 | (7) | |
| Case Worksheets | 206 | (25) | |
| Index | 231 |
