Böcker av James P. Spillane

Looks at the major challenges of the principal position, examining how new principals adapt to the role, set an instructional agenda, and build cooperation and collaboration. The authors focus in particular on the dilemmas that mark the principalship - the inevitable, complicated conflicts that arise from a clash of worthwhile values and resist simple solutions.

This book contains a host of short chapters organized into four sections that form a tapestry for educators to consider the different dimensions of implementing more rigorous education standards.

Surveying school districts' responses to new statewide science and math teaching policies, Spillane argues that administrators and teachers are inclined to assimilate new policies into current practices. As new programs are communicated through administrative levels, the understanding of them becomes increasingly distorted, despite best intentions.