From the Publisher
This new casebook, based on a national study of first-year superintendents, 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 real-life case studies with analyses by experienced, knowledgeable professors of educational administration. All cases and text are based on a national study of 15-year superintendents.
From the Back Cover
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.