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What they don't tell you in schools of education about school administration

Title
What they don't tell you in schools of education about school administration / John A. Black, Fenwick W. English.
Author
Black, John A., Ph. D.
Publication
Lancaster : Technomic Pub. Co., ©1986.

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Additional Authors
English, Fenwick W.
Description
xiv, 325 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • School management and organization > United States
  • School administrators > United States
  • School administrators
  • School management and organization
  • Schulleitung
  • Schulverwaltung
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Pt. I: POWER AND THE CONTEXT OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. Power and politics -- Are you ready to play the game? -- Bureaucracies, Babus and baksheesh. Pt. II: CONNECTIONS. The community -- The PTA -- The staff -- The media -- Students. Pt. III: THE CAREER LADDER. Career planning-The legend of the "Chairs" -- Resumes , headhunters, and interviewing -- Academics and abecedarians. Pt. IV: GETTING THE JOB DONE RIGHT. The job vs the job description -- Ploys to avoid -- Hiring, shifting, and firing -- The emmetropia of evaluation -- Budget skullduggery -- Textbook tyranny, curriculum chicanery, and testing insanity. Pt. V: ADVERSARIES AND FRIENDS. Secretaries and custodians -- Unions -- The lunatic fringe -- Arch rivals and competitors. Pt. VI: SURVIVING. Knowing who is the boss -- Staying in power and staying power -- Idealism vs ideology.
ISBN
  • 0877624615
  • 9780877624615
LCCN
86050183
OCLC
  • ocm13947481
  • 13947481
  • SCSB-1701983
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library