This text covers historical and current trends in leadership in a very practical way, using cases and a problem-solving approach as vehicles for examination. The Modern approach of this book explores professional challenges, performance expectations, and operating conditions encountered by contemporary American school leaders. It is part of Allyn & Bacon's new Educational Leadership series from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, one of the leading schools of education in the world.

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A word from the authors:

The purpose of this textbook is three-fold. The first is to provide a school business official, or a prospective school business official, with a thorough understanding of the rapidly evolving context in which American public education now finds itself.

The book's second purpose is to provide the next generation of business administrators with prerequisite knowledge of key school business concepts and practices and the tools that thus enable them to leverage school management matters to further advance contemporary education operations.

A third purpose for this book is to serve as a reference work, a rich set of understandings to which school business officials can routinely turn when they desire added information on a management topic

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Zusammenfassung

This text in ABL’s new Educational Leadership series from Peabody College covers historical and current trends in leadership in a very practical way, using cases and a problem-solving approach as vehicles for examination.

The text was developed by a leading scholar in educational leadership as part of a series from one of the leading schools of education in the world. It has a strong basis in current research, and easy-to-use, intuitive features. It strikes an effective balance between the informational and the pedagogical. It covers trends (both historical and current) in educational leadership. The “Modern” approach of this book explores professional challenges, performance expectations, and operating conditions encountered by contemporary American school leaders. The case studies and interactive pedagogy make this a very practical text.

Inhalt

Table of Contents:

Series Preface

Preface

Chapter One: School Business Administration Case Studies

Chapter Two: The Rapidly Evolving World and the Problems it Presents for School Business Administration

Chapter Three: What School Business Officials Do

Chapter Four: Planning

Chapter Five: A Legal and Regulatory Context for School Business Administration

Chapter Six: Education Revenues: Magnitude, Sources, and Characteristics

Chapter Seven: Distributing State Education Funds

Chapter Eight: Managing Capital Projects and Fiscal Resources