This study investigated teachers' perceived job satisfaction in relation to their work and the supervision they received from the principal. Surveys were collected from 682 teachers from 41 central Texas school districts. The instrument used to evaluate teacher perception of job satisfaction and supervision was the Job Descriptive Index (JDI). The…

Although Pennsylvania has long made programming for all handicapped children mandatory, the passage of P.L. 94-142 has necessitated some changes even in this state. The major hurdle in the implementation of such a law is confusion and misinterpretation. Educators fear that the handicapped may be dumped into regular classes in an arbitrary manner.…

The question of who develops and adopts the rules and regulations to implement educational policies is at the center of the role controversy between boards of education and superintendents. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the demarcations between policy-making and administrative roles. Certain assumptions about board and superintendent…

School-based management is an educational reform intended to reverse the trend toward increasing centralization of school administration. Though it has been claimed that centralization increases financial and educational equity, aids efficiency, and eases administration, examination of these claims reveals them to be based too often on incomplete,…

According to developmental psychology, human development occurs in an identifiable sequence of stages. Appropriate experiences at each stage make development smoother and more rapid. Leadership can be roughly defined as the ability to structure events in a way that will take best advantage of developmental patterns. Members of organizations are…

The Special and General Education Leadership (SAGE) Project was a 3 year effort focusing on inservice activities for administrators and other personnel geared toward implementation of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. The project involved three objectives: to design, implement, and evaluate a series of staff development…

ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS SHOULD FACE THE CHALLENGE OF OVERCOMING OBSOLESCENT PRACTICES AND ATTITUDES IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE STUDY OF LITERATURE TO THE NEEDS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY WHERE THERE IS EVIDENCE, EVEN IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS, OF A LARGER ROLE FOR THE HUMANIST. THE PROBLEMS OF FACULTY SHORTAGE AND "FOSSILIZED" CURRICULUMS ARE MAINLY THE…

FROM THE QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE DATA OF A 1964 SURVEY REPRESENTING A 56-PERCENT RETURN OF ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN ILLINOIS, 70 TABLES WERE DEVELOPED TO DEFINE THE PRINCIPAL'S ROLE AND STATUS IN RELATIONSHIP TO CURRENT PRACTICES AND EMERGING TRENDS IN THE ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. QUESTIONNAIRE CATEGORIES…

THE SCHOOL IS A BASIC INSTRUMENT IN SECURING THE AMERICAN GOALS OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR PERSONAL FULFILLMENT. EVERY EFFORT MUST BE MADE TO ACHIEVE RACIALLY INTEGRATED SCHOOLS, FOR PRESENCE OF CHILDREN FROM VARIED RACIAL, CULTURAL, AND SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN THE PREPARATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE FOR PARTICIPATION IN MODERN…

THE NEED FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IS EMPHASIZED, ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS (POPULATION EXPLOSION, URBANIZATION, RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION, IMBALANCE, AND POPULATION MOBILITY) WHOSE EVENTUAL SOLUTIONS DEPEND UPON EDUCATION. PARTICULAR AREAS OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE REQUIRING INSERVICE EDUCATION OF…

Based on the premise that teachers usually blame the education system and the administration for discrepancies between how and what they want to teach, and how and what they actually do teach, a study was conducted to determine if teachers really are constrained by their administrators. Ninety-three teachers of tenth-year English from 22…

Few parents who have high school children enrolled in distant public schools as a result of court ordered desegregation are involved in those schools. This paper presents practical approaches toward encouraging parent participation in their children's education under the circumstances of desegregation. The approaches were gathered from diverse…

This selected bibliography lists articles and books published on the function of the public school principal in the United States. The periodicals were taken from the Education Index, 1970 through June 1980, and the books from the 1979-80 edition of "Books in Print," which includes titles from 1970-79. (Author/WD)

The high school principal's impact on classroom learning activities is examined in this research report. The study, conducted in four Houston high schools, applied the model described in "CCBC Notebook," February 1980. This report offers a portion of the overall research, providing a summary of the patterns identified. The first segment…

The purpose of this document is to call attention to the principalship, to preservice and inservice needs, and to possible solutions to complex problems. A number of groups were organized to address the recommendations made in a report to the legislature reviewing the adequacy of preservice training, evaluation, and continuing professional…