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Peer reviewedThorum, Reho F. – Clearing House, 1969
Descriptors: Administrators, Coordinators, Department Heads, Departments
Wiggins, Thomas W. – Educ Urban Soc, 1970
Argues that concepts of the elementary school principalship as essentially a role couched in the vagaries of administrative and instructional leadership seems to be questionable under the scrutiny of research. (RJ)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Leadership, Principals
Peer reviewedCrowson, Robert L.; Porter-Gehrie, Cynthia – Planning and Changing, 1981
Through a review of the literature describes some elements of the role of the principal in a large city school system and finds that strategies and devices for organizational stability and survival comprise an important portion of a principal's discretionary activity. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Involvement, Conflict, Discipline
Download full textBlank, Rolf K. – 1986
The role of the principal as leader has been a subject of considerable debate and research in education. This study examines the extent of variation in leadership behavior and activities among urban high school principals. Data were collected through interviews with principals and teachers in national samples of urban comprehensive high schools…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Analysis of Variance, High Schools
Townsel, Charles W.
Blacks are said to be often called upon to serve in difficult administrative positions located in school districts with financial difficulties where personnel and/or students are in revolt, where discipline is non-existent, where academic achievement levels are low, and where the community is divided. Major problems that arise when examining the…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrators, Black Influences, Black Leadership
Pavan, Barbara Nelson; Reid, Nancy Andrade – 1991
The dominant theoretical frameworks (structural, human resources, political, or cultural) espoused by elementary school principals are studied; and the platforms are compared with data previously collected on leadership behaviors and time usage. Data for 5 principals and 151 teachers in 5 elementary schools in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Principles, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education
Newberg, Norman A.; Glatthorn, Allan A. – 1982
The methodology, results, and implications of a study of instructional leadership styles of principals of four unusually successful inner city schools are outlined in this general summary. The principals studied were selected with the help of expert opinion and student test scores. Data comprise ethnographic observations and interviews of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Discipline, Educational Environment
Tractenberg, Paul L. – 1973
This book sets out to put the many questions raised by the selection of urban teachers into a meaningful context, and to suggest some answers. The thesis of this book is that, as quickly as possible, the process by which urban teachers are selected must be converted to a contemporary merit and fitness system. The ability to understand and reach…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Education, School Districts, School Supervision
Peer reviewedLane, John J. – Theory into Practice, 1991
Explores implications for instructional leadership and supervision in a community with school-based management (SBM), focusing on Chicago public schools. SBM provides structure for developing a school community. Three views of schools as communities include school communities and social capital; schools as communities of reflective practitioners;…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Educational Change, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
GROSS, NEAL; TRASK, ANNE E. – 1964
THE BACKGROUNDS, CAREERS, AND PERFORMANCE OF MEN AND WOMEN AS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS WERE EXAMINED TO RELATE SEX DIFFERENCE TO THE FUNCTIONING OF THEIR SCHOOLS. THIS REPORT REPRESENTED THE SECOND OF SEVERAL MONOGRAPHS THAT PRESENTED THE FINDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PRINCIPALSHIP STUDY, "A COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Administrators, Background, Career Choice, Elementary Education
Newberg, Norman A.; Glatthorn, Allan A. – 1982
This study explores the principal's role as instructional leader in four urban schools showing improvement in test scores. Data gathering procedures included ethnographic observations and interviews of principals; principals' logs of time use; interviews with teachers, school administrators, and students; and faculty surveys. The findings were…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Community Characteristics, Discipline
Glanz, Jeffrey – 1978
Focusing on factors which shaped and influenced public school supervision, the paper investigates educational developments in the late 19th century. During this period the movement toward centralization in urban public schools gained considerable momentum. Educational historians have largely ignored the role school superintendents played in the…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role
Roesch, Winston L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
This bulletin deals with the establishment of selected administrative and specialized service positions primarily from the standpoint of State statutes. The investigation is centered on an analysis of State constitutional and statutory provisions that authorize selected administrative and specialized service positions. Administrative and…
Descriptors: Educational History, State Regulation, State Policy, State Legislation
Lide, Edwin S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This manuscript reports a study that was made of procedures in curriculum building. The author discovered that there were three general types of curriculum revision aside from revision in a very few independent schools. These types were a city-wide type, a county-wide type, and a state-wide type. The first was found in a great many of our cities…
Descriptors: Educational History, Secondary School Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design
Blose, David T.; Alves, Henry F. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This bulletin presents statistics of state school systems in 1937-38. For the most part statistics presented in this chapter relate to public elementary and secondary schools in 48 States, the District of Columbia, and the outlying parts of the United States. Such data were submitted by States for nonpublic schools are incorporated in separate…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Statistics, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys
