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50 Years of ERIC
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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Fusarelli, Lance D.; Kowalski, Theodore J.; Petersen, George J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2011
Elements of directed autonomy were visible in public education long before the concept had been defined in the scholarly literature on organizational management. Most notably, states established common curricula and adequacy standards and then held local school boards accountable for compliance. Civic engagement, a liberty-based process through…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Educational Change, Leadership, Public Education
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Flessa, Joseph – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2007
This article review examines Arthur Levine's 2005 "Educating School Leaders," a report that recommended the elimination of the Ed.D. and the establishment of a new degree, the Master's in Educational Administration. The article review draws attention to the central irony of Levine's report: after chronicling the many ways that schools of education…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Doctoral Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Development
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Oplatka, Izhar – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2004
The current paper reports the findings of a study that sought to identify Israeli prospective teachers' perspectives about educational leadership in relation to "masculine" and "feminine" leadership orientations. The first purpose of the study was to expose prospective elementary teachers' conceptions about the "ideal" principal. The second was to…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Sexual Identity
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Kottkamp, Robert B.; Silverberg, Ruth P. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2003
The purpose of this study is to capture "insider" perspectives of professors in the forefront of transforming university leadership preparation programs. From interviews, we constructed first person narratives and developed "story threads" demonstrating related sequences of their thought and action in reform work. After developing themes based on…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Teacher Attitudes