Educational Governance and Administration (6th Edition)

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The sixth edition of Educational Governance and Administration provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to school finance issues and schools as political systems. Its case-based approach, descriptive studies of how schools work, and  broad look at the historical, political, social contexts that make up this area of study make this book a valuable tool for every aspiring educator, policymaker, and citizen looking for an overview of the current American educational system.

 

Educational Governance and Administration examines administrative practices with a critical eye and provides a balanced overview of the development of educational administration, taking into account the roles of teachers, students, principals, and superintendents. Extensively revised, the sixth edition contains a completely updated and comprehensive discussion of policy and policy making, as well as the financial and legal challenges that school leaders face. It explores the expanding role of the government in education and leadership, how schools work as political systems, and how administrators balance local, state, and federal influences. This extensively revised  Sixth Edition contains a completely updated and  comprehensive discussion of  policy and policy making, as well as the financial and legal challenges that school leaders face.

Features

• Serves as a clear and comprehensive introduction to school finance issues and a highly readable introduction to schools as political systems.
• Features the continuous theme of how conflicting values influence educational governance and administration.
• Shows a deep appreciation of conflicting values in American education and their influence on administration.
• Incorporates treatment of gender issues in the field.
• Includes substantive case materials and descriptive studies of how schools work with an analysis of public values that underlie present conflict in the field.
• Provides a balanced view of professionalism in educational administration, making it an excellent resource for all professionals.
• Summarizes today's most cutting-edge research on the roles of students, teachers, principals, and superintendents.
• Integrates the complex and pervasive impacts of NCLB throughout the text, including new introductory sections that examine the law in the context of enduring social values and that consider the impacts of NCLB on student achievement
• Contains new, innovative, and student-friendly pedagogical features such as data, charts, and graphs.
• Provides a completely updated overview of school law that reflects the most recent and most important court decisions and their impact
• Includes new and comprehensive information on standards-based leadership and the current controversy about administrative preparation.
• Presents an entirely new chapter that examines the evolving nature of today's students, and evaluates comtemporary research on this subject.

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