This research addresses lack of student teaching preparation. There is strong evidence that beginning teachers are not trained to adequately teach students due to their lack of preparation/content knowledge. The purpose of this study is to examine the experience of beginning teachers to try to understand why student teachers are not prepared for…

This case study describes a time period of 6 years in the history of a school, a period marked by crisis recovery and organizational response to a mandated large-scale reform. Despite its challenges, when speaking of this period a number of the staff reflected on it as a kind of magical moment in time. Twenty years later, I began to wonder what…

This study was initiated to determine the significant issues affecting metropolitan collaboration, as perceived by superintendents of selected districts in the Greater Boston Area. It was also intended to determine the existence of differences among superintendents in their perception of issues. The issues identified were those of community…

The purpose of this study was to determine what additional costs are associated with desegregation efforts in Texas public school systems. A questionnaire was developed around seven main areas: 1) student membership and professional staff data, 2) additional personnel costs, 3) facility costs, 4) student transportation costs, 5) instructional…

This paper describes the process of using a chief school administrator as a board resource person in contract negotiations involving the wages, hours, and working conditions of teachers. It describes how an administrator in a Pennsylvania school district supported and advised the board negotiating team by compiling, analyzing, and evaluating…

Decreasing enrollments and financial problems have led to considerable restructuring in North Dakota schools. One form of restructuring was the creation of dual-role administrative positions combining two or all of the roles of superintendent, elementary principal, and secondary principal. In 1987, 47 of 51 administrators holding such positions…

This paper compares the managerial, administrative, and leadership styles of public-school superintendents and presidents of public corporations. Data were derived from questionnaires mailed to eight superintendents and seven corporate presidents. Findings show that superintendents and corporate presidents used similar leadership…

The purpose of the study was to trace and document by means of historical research methods, the organization of the St. Louis Public School System's elementary reading curriculum in regard to instructional methodology, legislation, and influential personalities. Chronologically, the study covered the period 1821-1973. The reading curriculum of the…

The study examines selected characteristics of the innovator, the innovation, and the school system as related to attempts at educational innovation through ESEA Title III proposals in 1966 in Massachusetts. An attempt is made to identify those characteristics, associated with successful institutionalization, in the hope of indicating implications…

This study was intended to assess the response of educational administrators to crises by measuring the degree that school superintendents vary their responses according to the characteristics of a crisis. A questionnaire was developed, pilot-tested, and revised, then sent to all 39 school superintendents in Rhode Island. The resulting data were…

This study is an attempt to investigate several aspects of private education in relation to desegregation in the nation, the 11 Southern states and North Carolina. The history of private schools and the evolution of the Southern academies are examined along with the alternative schools which have been proposed since the Brown decision of 1954 and…

This study examines the circumstances under which a large urban school system opens the budget development process to the input of citizens groups and the difficulties involved in this effort. The scope of the study is limited to the analysis of the 1977 Budget Task Force (BTF) of the Philadelphia School District and observations of the…

This study investigated the ideal and actual criteria for selecting school superintendents as perceived by senior high school teachers and students, parents, administrators, and school board members. Its purpose was to determine if the ideal and actual criteria for selecting urban school superintendents would differ significantly as perceived (1)…