Modern administration of secondary schools : organization and administration of junior and senior high schools / Harl R. Douglass

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Human relationship and basic principles -- 2. The administrators and their interrelationships -- 3. The Preparation, growth, and certification of the principal -- 4. Staffing the school -- 5. Arranging staff assignments -- 6. Assisting and improving the staff -- 7. Organizing the curriculum -- 8. Improving curriculum -- 9. Improving student learning -- 10. Administering the extra-class activity program -- 11. Administering the extra-class activity program (continued) -- 12. Organizing and improving guidance -- 13. Organizing and improving guidance -- 14. Improving school citizenship -- 15. Using student government and management -- 16. Constructing the schedule -- 17. Student accounting and reporting -- 18. Business accounting and administration -- 19. Physical and health education and athletics -- 20. Administering library, lunch, and transportation services -- 21. The Administrative offices and their management -- 22. High-school housing and its care -- 23. Community and public relationship -- 24. Types of secondary-school organization -- 25. Evaluation of the secondary school.

his volume has been prepared principally for four types of use: (1) as a textbook for college and university classes in high-school administration; (2) for beginning principals and superintendents and those who are about to become administrators; (3) as a professional book for principals and superintendents in service who have not recently had a course in high-school administration; and (4) for the experienced principal who wants to check his knowledge and practices with a recent book for current changes and new and different practices in high-school administration.