Avoiding School Facility Issues

A Consultant's Guidance to School Superintendents (Hc)

von G. Kent Stewart

192 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book can be used as a graduate school text for courses in school buildings and facilities. It is probablymore suitable as a guide for practitioners especially school district superintendents in small tomedium sized school districts. Such districts make up the majority of school districts in this country.Lunenburg and Ornstein (1996) reported that 38% of the 15,000+ school districts in America enrollfewer than 1,000 students; and another 37% enroll from 1,000 to 5,000 students. America is a countryof relatively small school districts.The book opens with a brief overview of the history of twentieth century school buildings and movesfrom there into a brief discussion of the requirements of today's school buildings as integral parts ofthe communities they serve. Citizens need to understand problems and issues involving their schoolbuildings. Understandings are reached through practice of positive relations between school and community.Good public relations facilitates mobilization of the public to assure that school buildings ultimatelyserve the publics' interests.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften Organisation und Verwaltung
• ISBN: 9781593115937
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2006
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Information Age Publishing