This book seeks to contribute to the training of future educational leaders through a number of cases and presenting a series of dilemmas.

Preparing school administrators for the challenges they will face requires materials well-informed about the nuts and bolts of education in real life. Only a richly detailed case study book like Short and Scribner's will provide them with the opportunity to analyze current issues. Each narrative chapter concludes with application questions and a list of references. The authors, some of the most respected American scholars on the superintendency have compiled cases grounded in research and reality. They explore topics such as the politics of education, the debate over merit pay, women in the superintendency, and the role of the superintendent as an instructor.

Budget cuts, sexual harassment, ethnic issues, and other moral and legal dilemmas confront school board members at every level. This collection of case studies will help current and future administrators understand specific aspects of a board member's work. Cases generate questions and discussions on First Amendment rights and the school newspaper, conflicts within the board, hiring services of private contractors for school services, budget creation, and hiring of minorities. Hayes has been a high school teacher, department chair, assistant principal, and high school principal. Since his retirement, he has chaired the Teacher Education Division at Roberts Wesleyan College. This work lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.

The School Superintendent: Theory, Practice, and Cases is the essential guide to succeeding as a superintendent or as an administrator in another district-level position. Comprehensive in both theory and practice, this textbook and reference guide examines the role and responsibilities of school district administration in professional, social, philosophical, and political frames, while balancing perspectives of rewards and challenges commonly expressed by school superintendents. Important topics covered include the emerging role of superintendent as communicator, the changing conditions in districts and schools, inadequate funding for public schools, and the treatment of policy administration, leadership roles, and community involvement. Fully updated, the Third Edition provides: greater emphasis on the challenges facing novice superintendents; new material on strategic planning and visioning; new and expanded coverage of contemporary issues such as inadequate district funding and social challenges; additional figures, tables, key terms, and other helpful learning tools; and more.

Rather than asking students to memorize rote recipes for action, this new book enhances students' ability to encounter new situations, assess relevant factors and decide on effective courses of action on their own. It offers valuable vicarious experiences and insights by combining case studies of actual beginning superintendents with analyses by experienced, knowledgeable professors of educational administration.

The School Superintendent: Theory, Practice, and Cases is both a textbook and reference for practitioners.