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Turnover at the top : superintendent vacancies and the urban school / Bruce Buchanan.
Van Pelt Library LB2831.724.F6 B83 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchanan, Bruce, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miami-Dade County School District (Fla.).
- School superintendents--Florida--Miami-Dade County--Case studies.
- School superintendents.
- Miami-Dade County School District (Fla.)--Officials and employees--Turnover--Case studies.
- Urban schools--Florida--Miami-Dade County--Case studies.
- Urban schools.
- Florida--Miami-Dade County.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 197 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.
- Summary:
- Leadership turnover in America's largest school districts has increased so rapidly that the average urban superintendent tenure is roughly 2 years. Because many urban superintendents are hired knowing that they will either be terminated or forced to resign in a short period of time, this cycle creates a class of superintendents who leap around the country from job to job, with no real ties to the communities they serve. So why are big-city superintendents seemingly always on the hot seat? Urban superintendents regularly face vast academic, funding, and socioeconomic challenges, and school boards find it much easier to change the coach than to change the players. Turnover at the Top: Superintendent Vacancies and the Urban School examines reasons for this frequent turnover, as well as its ramifications. It includes firsthand accounts from parents, school board members, and urban superintendents and will be of great interest to administrators, elected officials, and superintendents.
- Contents:
- Welcome to Miami
- Have briefcase, will travel
- Urban challenges
- Dealing with the boss
- Playing politics
- At the bargaining table
- Community relations
- The unblinking eye
- Picking up the pieces
- Left behind
- The superhero superintendent
- Soaring salaries
- Finding the right fit
- Burnout
- Miami: year 1.
- ISBN:
- 157886481X
- 1578864828
- OCLC:
- 64486796
- Publisher Number:
- 9781578864812 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781578864829 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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