John Hunt

Accountability is the Key (eBook, PDF)

Unlocking School Potential through Enhanced Educational Leadership

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

School administration is more difficult today than at any time in our history. Whether addressing the needs of students, parents or staff at the building level, or facing the questions posed by the board of education, the media or the general public at the district level, administrators face constant calls for accountability. Demands for administrative accountability have steadily increased since the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983. The most recent trend has been to tie administrative evaluations to student performance, increasing stress among administrators at all levels. The cumulative effect of three decades of challenges to administrative authority has undermined the publics view of educational administrators as experts. The author examines the current state of public education, including the influence of private individuals and foundations, and alternative approaches to the educational delivery model and then highlights successful examples of public education. He concludes by considering input of current administrators and school board members and presents a strategy which educational administrators can employ to win back public confidence and support.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216319597
• Artikelnr.: 74844096

Autorenporträt

John Hunt is an associate professor of educational leadership at Southern illinois University Edwardsville. He previously spent 34 years in Colorado, Illinois, Missouri and Washington as a teacher, principal, university laboratory school director, assistant superintendent and superintendent.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Current World
Why Money Matters
The Shadow System
Administrative Decision-Making: Conflict or Consensus?
Listening Skills: The Administrator's Best Friend
The Future of Administrative Accountability: Friend or Foe?
References