Administration of Schools/Marlow Ediger and Digumarti Bhaskara Rao. New Delhi, Discovery Publishing House, 2007, xii, 154 p., ISBN 81-8356-244-2.

    Contents: Preface. 1. Administration of schools. 2. Leadership in education for what purpose? 3. Guidelines for school principals. 4. Improving the position of the superintendents of schools. 5. In service education and the school counsellor. 6. Teacher as educational leader. 7. Providing leadership in assessment. 8. Committees and pupil progress. 9. Obtaining quality teaching. 10. Psychology of improving teaching quality. 11. Teacher involvement in evaluation achievement. 12. School library and learner. 13. Guidelines for helping the child learn. 14. Who should select objectives for instruction? 15. Important but difficult to measure objectives. 16. Promoting oral communication experiences. 17. Problems with state Mandated testing. 18. Present day philosophies of education. Index. 

    "School administrators have much responsibility in assisting teachers, support personnel and students to achieve. They possess a leadership position to help others as well as themselves to grow, develop and achieve. They help each teacher develop well professionally. They provide conducive working conditions to compliment each teacher to achieve optimally. They provide better communication options. They undertake optimum safety procedures in consultation with the concerned. Like these, they perform several things in administration. 

    This book on Administration of Schools will help the personnel in modifying themselves good administrators." (jacket)  

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