Educational Governance and Administration

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Educational Governance and Administration

• 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.