Administrators in the Marblehead Public Schools in Massachusetts were asked to rate 48 administrative skills in terms of their importance for administrators in the local district, the need for improvement in these skills among district administrators in general, and the need for improvement in the skills by the survey respondent in particular. Of…

The paper reviews the experiences of special education administrators in Quincy (MA) Public Schools regarding compliance with P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Noted are the decentralized model of Pupil Personnel Service Teams, the administrator's role in guiding teachers to set priorities in academic and vocational…

In Australia, drug and alcohol education should be an integral part of a total health education program with an emphasis on developing student decision-making powers. The use of explicit information about drugs and attempts to scare people away from drugs may actually be counterproductive and encourage drug abuse. The teacher is the primary health…

This book is a collection of twelve papers concerning the role of the public school principal and the legal decisions he or she is forced to make on the job. The twelve contributors are nationally recognized experts in the field of school law and school administration. Topics covered include legal aspects of a principal's employment; authority…

This paper describes and explains three needed developments for building a foundation from which knowledge unique to a profession of educational administration can emerge and thus improve school effectiveness. Each needed development is associated with a general need for a shift in the focus of scholarly attention. Researchers need to focus first…

As enrollments continue to decline, principals face new staffing problems, especially problems connected with reduction in force. One forecasting method useful for determining if enrollment will decline is the Keough Indicator Survey Scale, which contains questions about key community characterisitics. Administrators experiencing declining…

This paper describes research that attempted to discover and describe the socialization process in school administrative careers that support or hinder women's decision-making for a career in school administration. After a theoretical framework was set up, twenty-five successful women administrators were interviewed and the data were analyzed. One…

This document is a guideline that outlines specific information for creating an intramural-recreational sports concentration and/or option within a physical education or recreation curriculum. Since each institution is unique, this document is to be used as a framework to help institutions develop curricula for the intramural-recreational sports…

The 11 documents and journal articles annotated here treat the general topic of principal competency. More specific subjects cover administrator evaluation and administrator role, as well as attitude surveys of administrative personnel. (LD)

The major problem facing educational administrators in the next decade will be the need to control costs within the context of reduced resources. This paper, by centering its discussion around the problem of declining enrollments, discusses the role of administrators in educational finance. Restrictions to cost control in Canadian schools are…

As well as looking at the historic development of faculty-principal relations, this paper focuses on current changes in and challenges to the principal's role. The paper contends that faculty-principal relations are central to what happens in education. It maintains that dramatic changes in schools demand new value orientations and styles of…

One of the conditions set forth in the hiring of the new superintendent of a southeast Texas school district was that a reduction in force would be accomplished. How this process, that usually involves six months planning time and and additional year to carry out, was accomplished in a period of six months is detailed in this speech. An analysis…

To determine the relationship of organizational characteristics to the effective implementation of mainstreaming as mandated in P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the responses of 99 Oregon schools to a questionnaire were analyzed. Multiple regression and correlational techniques were used. The regression equation formed…

This paper describes a study conducted to identify principals' behaviors that supported or hindered externally funded change projects in their schools. The study also attempted to discover conceptions of needs, problems, and opportunities for inservice training for principals who manage such projects and to recommend content and delivery modes of…

Suggestions are made for creating healthy working relationships within a college administration and for improving the administrator's ability to cope with college politics. After introductory material examining the difficulty some educators, especially women, experience in utilizing power and politics to achieve desired goals, the report discusses…