Handbook of Research on Educational Administration. - Review - book review

Looking at emerging trends has value for practicing school administrators who hope to lead their districts effectively into the future.

So editors Joseph Murphy, professor and department chair at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, and Karen Seashore Louis, director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota, have provided a useful service in compiling these writings about several aspects of educational administration.

They examine such issues as providing more in-depth instruction of fewer content areas and the role of the teacher as facilitator of student learning. Other contributors address the shift from formal, hierarchical relationships to informal, more cooperative leader-follower relationships and the growing emphasis on school-home partnerships. Chapters discuss school funding issues and educational accountability and address important policy implications for the future.

While the focus of the book was limited to elementary and secondary administration, the intended audience is the research community.

(Handbook of Research on Educational Administration: A Project of the American Educational Research Association, 2nd edition, edited by Joseph Murphy and Karen Seashore Louis, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 350 Sansome St., San Francisco, Calif. 94104, 1999, 576 pp. with index, $100 hardcover)

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