Intended as a reference book for students and practitioners who are concerned with present and future problems of administering and supervising vocational education at the secondary and collegiate levels, this volume may also serve as a textbook in graduate courses dealing with administration and supervision in business education. Discussed first are the history of business education and the development of administration and supervision; tenets of educational administration; social, economic, and demographic forces affecting business education; business education for target groups; administration in junior high, secondary, and postsecondary schools; administration of leader preparatory programs in business education; research activities essential to program development; and federal responsibility affecting business education. Various administrative and supervisory responsibilities are covered, including staff selection, growth, and evaluation; human skills and group dynamics; the administrator as a leader/facilitator; planning and reporting functions; curriculum development responsibilities; and evaluating administrator effectiveness. Addressed next are the following current practices in business education administration: selection of business education supervisors/administrators; responsibilities of national, state, and local administrators of business education; and responsibilities of administrators at the junior high, secondary, postsecondary and independent business school. (MN)