The Principal’S Office: An Inside Story

By Barbara Ruben

THE PRINCIPALS OFFICE is a story with an inside view of public education through the vantage point of a high school principal. The author catapults the reader from life in public schools in the seventies to present day at an alternative school for kids at risk, not only for academic failure, but for sex, drugs, violence and abuse.

Throughout this story, the reader will come to know the students, teachers, administrators, Board members and parents and the oftentimes dysfunctional, self-serving agendas which impact student success or failure as well as the viability of the public school system.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 31, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465370822

Barbara Ruben

Barbara Ruben received her BA from Boston University and a Masters in School Administration from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. She was a teacher, a director of special education at a residential treatment facility, and an elementary and high school principal. She resides in upstate New York with her husband.

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