Administration category: 6852 books
Analyzing School Contexts
Influences of Principals and Teachers in the Service of Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Analyzing School Contexts is the ninth volume in a series of research and theory in school administration dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. The current selection of readings is loosely organized around the broad topics of school contexts,...
by Kurt Darr, Tracy J. Farnsworth, Robert C. Myrtle
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Emerging and experienced health services managers can hone their skills with these challenges and in-depth case studies. With more than 50% new content in this sixth edition, Cases in Health Services Management includes 28 cases and 12 ethics incidents that address contemporary issues encountered...
by Charles K. Stallard, Julie Cocker
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This book looks at the progress of American education in the use of technology since the publication of Stallard and Cocker's last book, The Promise of Technology in Schools: The Next Twenty Years. Fifteen years after its publication, they find little significant difference in the way K-12 schools...
Stepping into Administration
How to Succeed in Making the Move
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book is designed to provide beginning administrators with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed during their first year, shortening the initial learning curve and helping them make smooth transitions from teaching to their first administrative positions. Too often, beginning administrators...
by Art Saguinsin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
The book tackles the system and nature of bureaucracy, the forms of government, and the importance of government agencies to the people. The polices of government, the civil service commission, leadership and management of people, and many important topics.
by Beryl A. Radin
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Proposals for reform have dotted the federal management landscape in the United States for more than 50 years. Yet these efforts by public management professionals have frequently failed to produce lasting results. In her new book, Federal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions, renowned public...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
`In Learning to Read Critically in Educational Leadership and Management, Mike Wallace and Louise Poulson provide students with an eminently usable text. Although the theoretical underpinnings and conceptualizations of leadership issues invariably differ, this book provides a lucid guide to plumbing...
Climbing the Healthcare Management Ladder
Career Advice from the Top on How to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
“If you’ve set your sights on a career in healthcare management, this book will be your personal guide to what it takes to succeed. Who better to learn from than today’s top executives who have scaled the ladder ahead of you.” —Kathyrn Ullrich, author of Getting to the Top, Strategies for...
Beyond Leadership
A Relational Approach to Organizational Theory in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book systematically elaborates Scott Eacott’s “relational” approach to organizational theory in education. Contributing to the relational trend in the social sciences, it first surveys relational scholarship across disciplines before providing a nuanced articulation of the relational research...
The Provost's Handbook
The Role of the Chief Academic Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration while simultaneously acting as the administration’s spokesperson to the academic faculty. How has...
Lessons for Principals
Case Studies from High School Administration
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
The doctoral dissertation "Human Relations in Secondary School Administration: Case Episodes". Presented for the degree of doctor of education at the University of Maryland in 1957. The author eventually became superintendent of schools in three communities in Pennsylvania (Bristol, Huntingdon Valley, and Columbia).
The Ontario Municipal Board
From Impact to Subsistence 1971-2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The Ontario Municipal Board attracted power to it from the time it was formed in 1906 as a railway overseer and thereafter until 1932 when it became the regulatory tribunal for municipal financing and urban and regional planning applications. By 2006, the same government of Ontario that had entrusted...
by Shelley B. Wepner, Dorothy S. Strickland, Diana J. Quatroche
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now in its fifth edition, this popular textbook is still the most comprehensive resource available on the oversight of literacy programs (pre-K–12). Focusing on what literacy leaders need to know and do to meet today’s mandates, experts in the field offer new insights that reflect the...
The School Superintendent
Theory, Practice, and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The School Superintendent: Theory, Practice, and Cases is the essential guide to succeeding as a superintendent or as an administrator in another district-level position. Comprehensive in both theory and practice, this textbook and reference guide examines the role and responsibilities of school district...