Modern School Business Administration: A Planning Approach (Peabody College Education Leadership Series), 1st edition
- James W. Guthrie |
- Christina C. Hart |
- John Ray |
- I Carl Candoli |
- Walter G. Hack |
Title overview
Features:
- Authored by expert scholars as part of a cohesive series developed at one of the leading schools of education in the world. This series will provide readers with a succinct and practical analysis of current educational leadership topics.
- Case study approach - Each section of the text opens with case studies, each demonstrating real issues faced by educational administrators today. The authors refer back to these case studies throughout the section.
- ELCC standards integration - Standards are highlighted in each section and chapter to demonstrate how tightly the content is correlated to the standards.
- Practical end-of-chapter material - Chapters close with several pages of practical material including class activities, discussion questions, and case studies revisited.
- An instructor’s manual with resources and test items is available online to adopters by contacting your local representative.
New to this Edition:
- Case Study Approach. The text now opens with a chapter containing six newly written, business-related case studies to which reference is made in subsequent chapters throughout the text.
- Two Entirely New Chapters have been added to the beginning of the text to provide a more modern context: a totally new chapter on capital construction and a totally new chapter on the federal government.
- Updated Citations and References have been added.
- Contemporary School Business Developments feature has been added where appropriate, linked directly to adjacent text material.
Table of contents
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
Chapter Nine: Budgeting
Chapter Ten: Federal Governance and Education Finance
Chapter Eleven: Accounting, Auditing, and Reporting
Chapter Twelve: Managing Money
Chapter Thirteen: Managing Personnel
Chapter Fourteen: Managing Facilities
Chapter Fifteen: Managing Materials
Chapter Sixteen: Managing Risks
Chapter Seventeen: Managing Auxiliary Services
Chapter Eighteen: Managing Information
Glossary
Index