school management and organization

Describes strategies designed to help educators deal with the complexities they encounter in their day-to-day work, explaining how to frame problems and dilemmas, and exploring the connections between problems and dilemmas and planned changes. Includes case studies.

A history of secondary education in America describing centralized administrations, teacher certification, and how stumbling blocks developed.

Discusses the role of principals in modern-day schools, and offers advice to school leaders on how to integrate both managerial and leadership skills into the performance of their job.

Thirty school principals from all grade levels describe the challenges they faced in their first year on the job and the lessons they have learned since.