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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Supporting Graduate Students of Color in Educational Administration Preparation Programs: Faculty Perspectives on Best Practices, Possibilities, and Problems
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Young, Michelle D.; Brooks, Jeffrey S. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Overview: This article presents findings from a study that examined faculty perspectives on how individual faculty members and institutions support graduate students of color in educational administration preparation programs. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify strategies that faculty members and institutions employ to support…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Social Support Groups, Focus Groups, Educational Administration
How Teachers Experience Principal Leadership: The Roles of Professional Community, Trust, Efficacy, and Shared Responsibility
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Wahlstrom, Kyla L.; Louis, Karen Seashore – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Purpose: The leadership of the principal is known to be a key factor in supporting student achievement, but how that leadership is experienced and instructionally enacted by teachers is much less clear. The purpose of this study was to examine various factors that are often present in principal-teacher interactions and teacher-teacher…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Self Efficacy, Teacher Surveys, Regression (Statistics)
Teacher Teams and Distributed Leadership: A Study of Group Discourse and Collaboration
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Scribner, Jay Paredes; Sawyer, R. Keith; Watson, Sheldon T.; Myers, Vicki L. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: This article explores distributed leadership as it relates to two teacher teams in one public secondary school. Both situational and social aspects of distributed leadership are foci of investigation. Methods: The qualitative study used constant comparative analysis and discourse analysis to explore leadership as a distributed phenomenon.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Instructional Leadership, Demography, Discourse Analysis
Teacher Nostalgia and the Sustainability of Reform: The Generation and Degeneration of Teachers Missions, Memory, and Meaning
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Goodson, Ivor; Moore, Shawn; Hargreaves, Andy – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Purpose: This article focuses on the sustainability of reform through the lens of teachers' nostalgia--the major form of memory among a demographically dominant cohort of experienced older teachers. Unwanted change evokes senses of nostalgia for these lost missions that take two forms: social and political. As teachers age, their responses to…
Descriptors: Memory, Teachers, Educational Change, Aging (Individuals)