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Peer reviewedMoody, Charles D. – School Review, 1973
Experiences suggest that black superintendents are not appointed in districts which provide them with the time and resources to develop creative educational programs relevant to their school community. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Blacks, Boards of Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Superintendents
Peer reviewedWolin, Robert B. – School Management, 1972
A biographical sketch of Dr. Lester E. Rounds, superintendent of Ramapo Central School District, Suffren, New York. The article describes the unorthodox methods and the humanized approach Dr. Rounds uses in his job. (DN)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Community Support, Human Relations
Salmon, Paul B. – Compact, 1972
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Cooperative Planning, Management Teams, Principals
Erickson, Kai L. – Updating School Board Policies, 1970
There is a need for new specialized school management personnel for the successful operation of a modern school system. (Author)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Superintendents, Teacher Strikes
Thomas, M. Donald – Nation's Schools, 1971
Suggests that negotiations between a board of education and the superintendent are difficult and can be embarrassing, but they can contribute to an understanding of the way two parties work cooperatively for better schools. (JF)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Contract Salaries, Contracts, Negotiation Agreements
Burt, Samuel M. – Today's Education, 1970
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, School Community Relationship, Social Problems, Superintendents
Sayler, Ruth W. – Nation's Schools, 1970
A school superintendent's typical day during and personal reactions to a 14-day teacher walkout in Hammond, Indiana. (Author)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Superintendents, Teacher Associations, Teacher Salaries
Sendor, Elizabeth – American School Board Journal, 1981
Offers guidelines to school boards in deciding whether to hire an insider or an outsider to fill the position of superintendent. (WD)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Iannaccone, Laurence – School Administrator, 1981
Recent research has studied superintendents who survive in high-risk periods, those years in a school district when the odds of superintendent involuntary turnover are the highest. In this article several long-term superintendents are interviewed and their survival and conflict management skills shared. (WD)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Superintendents
Wilson, Robert E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
Gives a composite view of the successful superintendent in Ohio. The information is based on a study of 16 superintendents identified as the most successful in the state. (IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Characteristics, Success
Peer reviewedWillower, Donald J.; Fraser, Hugh W. – Administrator's Notebook, 1979
Among the findings of telephone interviews of 50 Pennsylvania superintendents are that the superintendents are irked by the paperwork demands of governmental agencies, uneasy about not being closer to instruction and the classroom, and feeling the pressures of the job, but ready to do it over again. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews, Superintendents
Peer reviewedGriffin, Richard A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1981
The author asserts that superintendent's leadership behavior, more than any other factor, determines the character and quality of the instructional programs provided for learning and language disabled students. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Language Handicaps, Leadership
Johnson, Carroll F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Lists superintendent characteristics boards of education most often specified as desirable and suggests behavioral patterns that will help develop the four qualities most sought by boards. (IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Superintendents
Cochran, Richard F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Reports on a survey of school superintendent job satisfaction. (IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, School Surveys, State Surveys
Bruckner, Martha – Principal, 1997
A 1995 survey of 590 children of Nebraska school administrators revealed that the majority of administrators begin their careers when they have small children. Nearly two-thirds of respondents attended the same school where their parents worked. A majority of respondents liked being administrators' children. Teasing bothered many, but being the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Elementary Education, Family Relationship, Misconceptions
