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What They Don't Tell You in Schools of Education about School Administration

John A. Black, Ph.D., Nassau NY BOCES; Fenwick W. English, Ph.D., Professor, School of Education, University of North Carolina

"This wonderful, witty book tells it like it is. These two experienced administrators tell you what school administration is really all about." --Educational Leadership (ASCD)

"The authors are often irreverent, but they also offer tough, sensible advice and insights." --Executive Educator

Contents (condensed):

Power and the Context of School Administration:

Power and Politics

Are You Ready to Play the Game

Bureaucracies Connections:

Community

PTA

Staff

Media

Students Career Ladder:

Career Planning

Resumes, Headhunters, Interviewing

Academics and Abecedarian Getting the Job Done Right:

The Job vs. Job Description

Ploys to Avoid

Hiring, Shifting, Firing

Emmetropia of Evaluation

Budget Skullduggery

Textbooks, Tyranny, Curriculum Chicanery, and Testing Insanity Adversaries and Friends:

Secretaries and Custodians

Unions

The Lunatic Fringe

Arch Rivals and Competitors Surviving:

Knowing Who's the Boss

Staying in Power

Staying Power

Idealism vs. Ideology

softcover edition 1996, 339 pp., 6x9, softcover, Now $24.50