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This forty-two chapter Handbook will be a major contribution to the literature of education. It will be a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary, research-based, and practice-based resource that all educators can turn to as a guide to data-based decision making.

Treating principals as concurrently visionary leaders and competent managers, this excellent text addresses the needs of aspiring and practicing principals, providing the tools to build effective and efficient schools.

Suitable for educators, this guide deals with data-based decision making.

A wealth of qualitative data concerning urban districts and their school superintendents in the United States is contained in this book. Theodore J Kowalski examines the lives of 17 urban school superintendents focusing on their problems and aspirations. Of particular significance is the discussion of how factors such as community environment, organizational change and culture, and the person in the job combine to influence decision-making and...

The book is a unique and necessary contribution to the literature on school administration. Research, theory, and practice were melded to produce a book that can be used as a primary or supplemental text or as professional growth resource for practitioners. Communication scholars, especially since 1990, have concluded that competence must be defined and studied in the context of professions. As such, a growing number of medical schools, law sc...

The School Superintendent: Theory, Practice, and Cases, Third Edition provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the school district superintendent position and a blend of theory and practical knowledge pertaining to contemporary practice in this pivotal position. Readers are encouraged to engage in reflection by linking content with personal experiences. This objective is pursued by providing reflective summaries, pertinent questio...

For students taking courses in educational leadership and educational administration. A collection of case studies for prospective school administrators that emphasizes problem solving, decision-making, and effective management. Based on the conviction that effective practice in school administration requires both leadership and management, this text provides a mix of problems that require administrative decisions as presented in 24 open-ended...

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The heightened interest in and the rapid expansion of adult education has become a trend in a variety of environments. In order to serve these developing areas, educators, personnel directors, as well as staff development specialists require improved methods for planning learning activities within their own unique organizational contexts. In The Organization and Planning of Adult Education Kowalski examines the issues created by providing a s...

In Effective Communication for School Administrators: A Necessity in an Information Age the authors blend research, theory, and practice as they examine the critical nature of communication in contemporary practice for administrators. Divided into two parts, it examines relationships among communication, public relations, and school reform and addresses effective communicative behavior in relation to learning organization, democratic leadershi...

Examines the critical nature of communication in contemporary practice for administrators. Divided into two parts, this book deals with relationships among communication, public relations, and school reform and addresses effective communicative behavior in relation to areas such as learning organization, democratic leadership, and others.

This book is an extension of decade studies of the American school superintendent dating back to the 1920s.

This book is a unique and necessary contribution to the literature on school administration. Research, theory, and practice were melded to produce a book that can be used as a primary or supplemental text or as professional growth resource for practitioners.

This book is an extension of decade studies of the American school superintendent dating back to the 1920s.