This booklet describes the business and finance functions of managing public school systems. The role and duties of a school business administrator are discussed and qualifications, educational requirements, and certification requirements are suggested for the position. The organizational structure, operation, and duties of administrators in the…

Periodic reexamination of existing professional development school forms is good practice to ascertain whether goals are being met. Such an assessment was sparked by a request from a superintendent in a 14-year-old professional development school structure at a public college in the Northeast. This assessment revealed that although the…

This is a detailed description of an assessment that can be used in a graduate level of study in the area of public school finance. This has been approved by NCATE as meeting all of the stipulated ELCC standards for which it is designed (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.). This course of…

In this study, the researchers investigated the perceived relationships of financial and non-financial incentives on teacher recruitment and retention among public school teachers in the State of Texas from the perspective of 98 public school superintendents. Findings revealed that school districts tended to offer teachers' salaries over the state…

This study examines why 51 schools declined an invitation to participate in a state-funded educator incentive initiative, the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program. Using data from an ongoing evaluation of the TEEG program conducted by the National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) under contract with Texas Education Agency, this…

The surge of high-stakes testing and accountability has been felt in Texas and all across the country. Every state is demanding to some degree or another that administrators and teachers increase their workload, alter their teaching, rearrange the curriculum, adjust professional development, and implement improvement programs in order to raise…

The purpose of the case study is to describe how one large school district in the United States has expanded their expectations for students based on the perceived need for graduates to compete in an increasingly global job market. The study "summarizes" the processes for establishing districtwide systems to support these expectations. The case…

Recounts the training and preparation that went into the successful use of a 14-member screening committee that included 11 citizens with no previous experience in reviewing professional papers. (Author/IRT)

Administrators who have been trained in the sciences may be more effective than those who have been trained in the humanities, according to a review of the literature. This paper asserts that the effectiveness of superintendents is a function both of their specific preparation for administration and of their educational backgrounds. The…

At the turn of the century, there was no canon of expertise in administrative practice because laymen operated most of the schools, and there was no canon of authority in professional educational administration because there was no identifiable body of knowledge unique to administration of schools. As the administrative progressives began to see…

The purpose of undertaking an administrative internship in the state of Indiana is to satisfy certification requirements for obtaining a superintendent's license. This paper discusses the one-year internship program in Indiana, beginning with a review of the month-by-month timeline of internship activities. Next, the paper lists 20 suggested…

This guide is the third in a series of eleven generated in 1978 as the result of workshops that focused on peer training, a different approach to teaching. The workshops provided the opportunity for members of eleven identified role groups to work together with peers to examine the relationship between their specific role group and community…

To investigate a possible gap between the outward acceptance of the AASA Code of Ethics and the individual members' internal or even public adherence to the Code, questionnaires containing 15 anecdotal situations which might face any typical school administrator were sent to 444 chief school administrators. A separate sheet solicited…

This booklet sketches the life, educational theories, and accomplishments of Albert F. Ames (1888-1931). Ames was trained as a mathematician, and served six years as a mathematics teacher in Canada before becoming superintendent of schools in Riverside, Illinois. He co-authored five mathematics textbooks with J. A. McLellan. These texts,…