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Peer reviewedStewart, Bob R. – Journal of the American Association of Teacher Educators in Agriculture, 1975
A research project, conducted in 40 Missouri schools, sought to determine the association of superintendent perceptions concerning various segments of the agricultural program based on: (a) the total amount of time available, and (b) the need to include the activity in the total agricultural program. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Instructional Programs, Secondary Education
Ponce, Robert H. – Thrust for Education Leadership, 1975
Article expanded on two programs designed to help the classroom teacher learn and experience bilingual-bicultural activities. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Equal Education
Download full textEstler, Suzanne E. – 1987
Efforts to understand the relationship between gender and school administration have usually focused on explaining the limited numbers of women administrators. Explanations of leadership style differences have stressed sex-role socialization theory, though some researchers suggest that the structure of power, opportunity, and social proportions in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education
Peterson, David – 1989
While a superintendent evaluation offers the school board protection from lawsuits and criticism from both terminated superintendents and constituents angered over the superintendent's performance and salary, it also offers encouraging praise, instructive criticism, and suggestions for overcoming shortcomings and problems. The performance…
Descriptors: Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Boards of Education, Competence
Foldesy, George – 1989
A comprehensive evaluation process begins with school board policy. Policy should provide direction by addressing the issues of who and what are to be evaluated, why evaluation is needed, when and by whom the evaluation is to be completed, and how the information is to be reported. An evaluation system, regardless of who is evaluated, should focus…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Evaluation, Boards of Education, Data Collection
Baptist, Beth Jones – 1989
State certification requirement are both an area of needed improvement and a vehicle for reform. A study was conducted to inventory the requirements for state certification of superintendents, to identify the similarities and differences between and among the states, and to compare the current status of superintendent certification to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection
Mauriel, John J.; And Others – 1989
Success in leading a public school system today requires the school executive to guide multiple stakeholders, including parents, educators, and students, toward the development, acceptance, and achievement of worthwhile educational goals. This book delineates the skills needed for this task and provides help in developing them. Part 1, with six…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Central Office Administrators, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Zirkel, Perry A. – 1990
Defamation is a common-law claim for liability that encompasses "libel," which is the written form, and "slander," which is the oral form. School principals can be plaintiffs or defendants in defamation suits. Relevant case law provides illustrations of the various elements of defamation for both roles of the principal. Court…
Descriptors: Administrators, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Responsibility
Shreeve, William; And Others – 1986
Questionnaires were used to elicit and compare information about teacher strikes from superintendents and union presidents of 42 school districts within the state of Washington and superintendents and union presidents of 124 school districts throughout the United States. All of the districts had experienced teacher strikes within the previous 3…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Communication Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Opinion
Sandrin, James V. – 1987
A 30-item questionnaire on attitudes about individualized instruction was administered to 31 high school principals, 42 teacher educators, 28 superintendents, and 39 elementary school principals, in Missouri. Results revealed that there was a fairly favorable overall belief that individualization of instruction holds promise. Most of the groups…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Principals
Kerrins, Judith A. – 1985
Approximately 500 Colorado school board members and school superintendents responded to a 1983 questionnaire that sought to determine the extent to which a need for inservice training for school board members was perceived as important. Of 67 skills or areas of knowledge listed in the questionnaire, the board members identified 20 as fairly…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Wilson, Alfred P.; Heim, John M. – 1984
Data from Kansas' 265 rural school districts from 1978-1979 through 1983-1984 revealed that there were 194 superintendent changes and 33 central office administrator changes during that period. Based on a total of 265 superintendencies and 46 central office administrator positions, the average number of superintendent changes per year was 32.33,…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Central Office Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Morales, Jeanette A., Comp.; Jones, Margaret E., Comp. – 1983
The directory is a listing of the school administrators for the five geographic areas in Florida that host migrant programs. Following a map of the areas, the directory presents three master lists: an alphabetical list of Florida school districts and the area of each, an alphabetical list of cities and their counties, and an alphabetical list of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Migrant Education, Migrant Programs, Principals
Lasher, Gaylord C. – 1989
Based on the author's research and experience with organizational decline, this speech discusses research on managing declining schools and provides a framework for thinking about decline. The long period of abundance between World War II and the middle 1970s shaped American character and accustomed its leaders, including school administrators, to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors, Educational Environment
Coursen, David; And Others – 1989
Chapter 4 of a revised volume on school leadership, this chapter discusses the relative scarcity of women and blacks in educational administration. After decades of civil rights legislation and women's movement activities, there are fewer women and minority school administrators than there were 35 years ago. Arguing persuasively for educational…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Selection, Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education
