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• Each chapter concludes with "Implications for Practice."
• 1 Perspective of Educational Administration
• Defining Leadership, Management, and Administration
• Evolution of School Administration
• Contemporary Conditions
• 2 Administration Roles in Professional Education
• School Administration as a Profession
• Nature of Administrative Work
• School-Level Administration
• District-Level Administration
• Other Careers in School Administration
• 3 The Study of School Administration
• Professional Preparation Programs
• Professional Preparation Components
• Preparing Administrators in the 21st Century
• 4 School Administration: Requirements and Opportunities
• Licensing and Certification
• Quality of Life Considerations
• Contemporary Opportunities
• 5 Control and Authority in Public Education
• Government's Interest in Education
• Interests in Colonial America
• Evolving Purposes
• Environmental Influences
• Purposes and Control
• Federal Government's Role
• Sources of Intervention
• Federal Government's Present Role
• State Government's Role
• Legislative
• Judicial
• Executive
• State Government's Present Role
• Local School Districts
• Local District Boards
• District Superintendent
• Present Status of Local Districts
• Intermediate School Districts
• 6 Social, Political and Historical Context of Private Education
• Historical Overview
• Types of Private Schools
• Parochial Schools
• Other Private Schools
• Home Schooling
• Status of Private Education in the United States
• Resurgence of Interest in Private Education
• Types of Private Schools
• Governance and Control of Private Schools
• Political and Legal Issues
• Regulation of Private Schools
• Governmental Aid to Private Schools
• Legal Issues
• 7 Organizational Dimensions of Schools
• Defining Organizations and Organizational Behavior
• Important Concepts
• Organizational Theory
• Professional Organizations
• Organizational Climate
• Authority
• Organizational Adaptability
• Schools as Organizations
• Social Frame
• Professional Frame
• Political Frame
• Public Frame
• Contemporary Context for Schools
• Preparing Schools for Change
• Building Professional Cultures
• 8 The Roles of School in Society
• Schools as a Mirror of Society
• Conflicting Values and Purposes
• Goals Versus Purposes
• 9 Administrative Strategies and Styles
• Complexity of Leadership
• Administrative Strategies
• Administrative Style
• Normative Models for Administrative Style
• 10 Behavior, Decision Making, and Reflective Practice
• Descriptive Models of Administrative Behavior
• Personal Needs and Dispositions
• Personal and Situational Variables
• Value of Descriptive Models
• Administration and Decision Making
• Rational Models
• Ethical Models
• Participatory Models
• Political Models
• Garbage Can Model
• Reflective Practice
• For Further Reflection
• 11 Important Aspects of Practice
• Motivation
• Understanding Motivation
• Content Theories
• Process Theories
• Motivation and the Exercise of Power
• Communication
• Elements of Communication
• Using Communication Effectively
• Importance of Communication
• Ethical Practice
• Taxonomy of Ethical Issues
• Ethical Issues of Daily Practice
• Time Management
• Time Management Strategies
• Importance of Time Management
• 12 Demands for School Reform
• Society and Schools in the 21st Century
• Demographic Trends
• School-Related Problems
• Tensions Between Excellence and Equity
• The First Wave: 1983-1987
• The Second Wave: 1988-
• 13 Responses to Student Needs and Public Dissatisfaction
• Failure and an Unfinished Agenda
• Reasons for Failure
• An Unfinished Agenda
• Reform Through Market-Oriented Concepts