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Answering the Critics of School Administration, 2nd Ed.
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Protheroe, Nancy – Educational Research Service, 2008
All too often, the public perception of school administration is that it is a large bureaucracy diverting critical resources from instruction. According to "Answering the Critics of School Administration: What Are the Facts? Second Edition," by Nancy Protheroe, the data show otherwise. Six common misperceptions of school administration are…
Descriptors: School Administration, Administration, Misconceptions, Textbook Content
Budgeted Revenues and Expenditures in Public School Systems: Current Status and Trends, Update 2003. A Reference Tool for School Administrators. Research Snapshot.
Williams, Alicia R.; Protheroe, Nancy; Cooke, Willa D. – 2003
This research snapshot provides answers to some of the key questions about budgeted revenues and expenditures within U.S. public school systems. The questions are as follows: (1) Why is information about school district budgets important? (2) How are school district budgets generally allocated? (3) To what extent do districts' expenditures vary by…
Descriptors: Budgets, Costs, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Staffing Patterns in Public School Systems: Current Status and Trends, Update 2003. A Reference Tool for School Administrators. Research Snapshot.
Williams, Alicia R.; Protheroe, Nancy; Parks, Michael C. – 2003
This research brief examines staffing patterns within U.S. public school systems. Specifically, it answers the following sets of questions: (1) Why is information about staffing ratios important? (2) How many people currently work in public schools? What proportion of these are teachers, administrators, and support staff? (3) What are the current…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Central Office Administrators, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education