The Changing World of School Administration

Part 1 Invited chapters: president's message, Paul Terry; Cocking lecture -improving student achievement - some structural incompatibilities, Fred C. Lunenburg; standardized testing and educational standards - implications for the future of emancipatory leadership in US schools, James M. Smith and Connie Ruhl-Smith; the fateful turn - understanding the discursive practice of educational administration, Fenwick W. English; the (un)changing world of school leadership - a journey from discourse to practice, Edith A. Rusch; leadership as a form of learning - implications for theory and practice, Linda Lambert; the changing environment for school leaders - market forces, Mary M. McCarthy; superintendents and board members grappling with zero tolerance policies, Margaret Grogan and Brianne Reck; a call for professional-organizational self-scrutiny, Syemour B. Sarason. Part 2 Leadership preparation: the impact of diversity in educational administration, Linda C. Tillman; the need for a leadership practice field - an antidote for an ailing internship, Theodore B. Creighton and Judy A. Johnson; small classes or accountability? using Texas assessment of academic skills, class-size outcomes and other data to demonstrate the necessity of critique, C.M. Achilles and J.D. Flinn; learning what they need to know - school leaders' lessons of experience, Lynn K. Bradshaw and Joy C. Phillips; issues the mentors share with proteges, Sandra Harris et al; change and transformation in an educational leadership program, John E. Henning and Victoria Robinson; best best-practices - assessments in non-traditional educational administration preparation programs, Gini Doolittle and James Caoxum, III; a journey to transform educational leadership graduate programs -the university of South Florida story, Karolyn J. Snyder. Part 3 Leadership in practice: toward ethnically responsible leadership in a new era of high stakes accountability, Steven J. Gross and Joan Poliner Shapiro; the man in the principal's office (re)visited by a woman, Margaret Andrews et al; changing times, changing relationships - an exploration of current trends influencing the relationship between superintendents and boards of education, Lance D. Fusarelli and George J. Petersen; politics and the socialization of superintendents, Lars G. Bjork et al; unrestricted reemployment of retired administrators - effective policy or a cause for concern?, Theodore J. Kowalski and Scott R. Sweetland; addressing mentor-principals' lifelong learning needs in the preparation of principal candidates, Lawrencce T. Kajs et al; school leaders' perceptions of multicultural competencies - implications for school leadership, Martha N. Ovando; women in school leadership - taking steps to help them make the leap, Sandy Hutchinson; administrator entry year programming - a cross-institutional pilot program - process, program descriptions and lessons learned, Louis Trenta et al.