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Peer reviewedJohnson, Steven; Howley, Aimee – Rural Educator, 2001
A survey completed by 161 Ohio school board presidents examined superintendent selection practices and how they related to district size and rurality-urbanicity. Overall, board presidents preferred recommended practices (such as use of professional consultants and uniform selection criteria) over traditional ones. However, board presidents from…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Schools
Download full textHowley, Aimee; Howley, Craig; Larson, William – 1999
Principals' support for various approaches to educational planning were examined in rural and suburban schools in Ohio and West Virginia. It was expected that rational approaches to planning would be more prevalent in suburban than rural schools and in a state with more tightly coupled bureaucratic control (West Virginia) than a less tightly…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bureaucracy, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Direct linkHowley, Craig B.; Howley, Aimee; Larson, William – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1999
A survey of 604 principals of suburban and rural schools in Ohio and West Virginia found that suburban Ohio principals showed less interest in traditional-consensual approaches to planning, whereas rural Ohio principals showed less interest in the new technicist approaches. Suburban West Virginia principals favored the new technicist approach,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
