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Download full textHuff, Anne S.; Pondy, Louis R. – 1983
This executive summary of a research project explores the general question of how school districts change their domains through the management of major proposals ("issues"). The study, which focused on case studies of three suburban superintendents' management of five to seven major issues, used raw data consisting of interviews with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making
Stanford, Ronnie L.; Zoellner, Willita S. – 1983
In January 1983, each of Alabama's 128 school system superintendents was sent a questionnaire requesting an estimate of that system's employment needs, by certification area, for the 1983-84 school year. Questionnaires submitted to teacher education institutions in Alabama requested information on the number of students completing student teaching…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Tallerico, Marilyn – 1989
Although the functional relationship between school board and superintendent is a critical connection that stands at the apex of the organizational pyramid in education, little is known about that linkage, other than the tension endemic to the relationship. This study therefore examines how superintendents and school boards interact and inquires…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Garland, Virginia – 1989
This report is the third of a series on cultivating excellence in education for the purpose of training and retraining school leaders of the 1990s. The superintendent's role in the supervision of the administrative staff is discussed in four parts. A review of the literature in section 1 addresses several of the difficulties faced by…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Excellence in Education
Katz, Malcolm – 1988
Supervisors in Georgia's schools, having assessed their most critical administrative needs through earlier surveys, identified their districts' most troublesome specific problem areas associated with those critical needs. For each critical need, rankings of seven problem areas were determined. Tables in this report display survey responses on each…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Change Strategies, Educational Environment
Peach, Larry E.; Reddick, Thomas L. – 1985
A sample of teachers, principals, supervisors, superintendents, school board members, and county commissioners across Tennessee responded to questionnaires concerning funding patterns and revenue sources for public education. Except for the commissioners, who are the funding agents for school systems in Tennessee and are responsible for setting…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, County Officials, Educational Attitudes, Educational Finance
Heller, Robert W. – 1982
Equal treatment of all candidates for administrative positions can be encouraged through the participation of professional consultants in the selection process and through careful career planning on the part of prospective administrators. The consultant's role in the selection process may include educating the board of education in the need for…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Affirmative Action, Boards of Education, Career Planning
Phillips, William H. – 1984
Many rural school districts are contemplating joint administrative agreements at the superintendent and central staff level. An Illinois superintendent who participated as a joint administrator of two districts points out the advantages and disadvantages of such an arrangement. The potential budget savings often allow the hiring of a top…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Budgeting, Class Size, Computers
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1982
This booklet describes the interrelated and complementary educational roles and duties of the school district superintendent, principal, system media contact person, media coordinator, media specialist, curriculum coordinator, instructional staff, system media committee, building media committee, and the community. The descriptions of each role…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Role, Coordinators, Educational Media
Peer reviewedJazzar, Michael – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2006
Superintendent Gillet, lacking sensitivity to the environment of the school, allows issues to surface without resolving them within the context of the prevailing climate. He discovers the hard way that shared decision making, collaboration, and other participatory governance models should be implemented for resolving divergent issues. Rather than…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making
Stockard, Jean – 1977
The possibility that the general public does not support women being school administrators is explored by reviewing the results of earlier studies and reporting the results of a survey of adults in Oregon. The vast majority of a sample of 824 adults approve of women being school administrators. The younger and higher status respondents are more…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women
Weischadle, David E. – 1977
The information contained in this report was gathered from state departments of education and state organizations of local school administrators in 24 states. The purpose of the survey was to gather information on employment practices affecting school superintendents for the New Jersey Task Force on Business Efficiency of the Public Schools. The…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Carol Marie – 1981
An apparent increase in the turnover of superintendents in recent years raises questions as to the possible causes of this situation and as to the characteristics that enhance compatibility between districts and superintendents, encouraging lengthy tenure. A study of 153 public school districts with enrollment between 3,000 and 5,000 attempted to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Educational Attainment, Educational Research
BOWMAN, GARDA W.; KLOPF, GORDON J. – 1966
THIS STUDY OF THE PREPARATION OF SCHOOL PERSONNEL FOR WORKING WITH DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUTH CONTAINS SECTIONS ON -- (1) PROFILES OF 5 OEO AND 13 NDEA PROGRAMS, (2) CASE STUDIES OF SELECTED PROGRAMS, INCLUDING THE NDEA SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND THE INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING ASSISTANTS IN PRESCHOOL…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
PERKINS, JAMES A.; AND OTHERS
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL BOARDS AND THEIR MEMBERS ARE INVESTIGATED, AND A DIFFERENTIATION IS MADE BETWEEN EFFECTIVE AND INEFFECTIVE BOARDS. TWENTY-SEVEN SCHOOL DISTRICTS, STRATIFIED BY REGION AND EFFECTIVENESS, WERE INCLUDED IN THE SAMPLE. INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONNAIRES WERE USED TO OBTAIN DATA FROM ALL CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS,…
Descriptors: Board Candidates, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
