The Principal's Office: A Social History of the American School Principal -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Go to the Principal's Office -- Chapter One: Preceptors, Head Teachers, and Principal Teachers: School Leadership through the Late Nineteenth Century -- Early School Leaders -- Leadership in Academies -- Common Schools, Graded Schools, and School Leadership -- Defining the New Principal -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: The Making of the Principal's Office, 1890-1940 -- The Administrative Progressive Educational Reform Movement -- The Principal's Office -- Supervisory Leadership -- Credentialing Professionals -- The Man in the Principal's Office -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Outside the Principal's Office: Principals, Democratic Leadership, and Community Change -- Democracy in School Administration and Community Leadership -- Educational Statesmanship in Secondary Schools -- Culturally Responsive Principals -- Teacher and Principal Unity -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: Cracks in the System: School Leadership, 1945-1980 -- The Educational Context of the Late Twentieth Century -- Crisis in the Principal's Office -- Sex and the Modern Principal -- Educator Unity and Disunity -- Principal Unions -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: Bearing the Burden: The School Principal and Civil Rights -- Desegregation and School Principals -- Civil Rights, Self-Determination, and School Leadership -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: Instructional Leaders in High-Stakes Schools -- Effective Schools, Instructional Leadership, and Transformational Leadership -- Accountability, Standards, and the School Leader -- School Restructuring and the Principal -- Shared Decision Making and Principals' Authority -- The Crisis in the Principal's Office -- Images of the Principal at Risk -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: In the Principal's Office.

Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Preceptors, Head Teachers, and Principal Teachers: School Leadership through the Late Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Two. The Making of the Principal's Office, 1890-1940 -- Chapter Three. Outside the Principal's Office: Principals, Democratic Leadership, and Community Change -- Chapter Four. Cracks in the System: School Leadership, 1945-1980 -- Chapter Five. Bearing the Burden: The School Principal and Civil Rights -- Chapter Six. Instructional Leadersin High-Stakes Schools -- Conclusion: In the Principal's Office -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.