The Assistant Principal: Leadership Choices and Challenges » (Second Edition)

Catherine Marshall is Professor in the Department of Educa­tional Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Once a teacher in Rhode Island, studies and career moves include doctoral studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles,  and faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University before moving in 1991 to Chapel Hill. The ongoing goal of her teaching and re­search has been to use an interdisciplinary approach to ana­lyze cultures-of schools, state policy systems, and the professional development of adults working in organizations. She has published extensively about the politics of education, qualitative methodology, and women's access to careers as well as about the socialization, language, and values in educa­tional leadership. She is the author of Reframing Educational Politics for Social Justice, Leadership for Social Justice: Making Revolutions in Education, Culture and Education Policy in the American States and Designing Qualitative Research, and other books, as well as numerous articles on the administrative career, es­pecially the entrant, the assistant principal. 

Filling a gap in the school leadership literature, this is the first book to focus on understanding the assistant principal's role in the US education system, how assistant principals get their jobs, how they are socialized, the problems and opportunities they encounter, and how they can take charge of their careers and make their position satisfying.

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A comprehensive study of what assistant principals do and who they are, as well as how these "administrators-in-training" can take charge of their careers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)