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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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Personal Intelligences: The Fourth Pillar of School Principalship?
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Schneider, Alex; Burton, Neil – Management in Education, 2008
The ever-increasing and complex demands on school principals are rapidly changing the nature of educational leadership. Communities and societies more generally are becoming increasingly aware of the wider impact of the way education is led, typified by the recent focus on developing emotional literacy (also known as social, emotional and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Leadership Training
An Ideal "Type"?--The Characteristics of Effective School Principals as Perceived by Aspiring Principals Both from within Education and Those from an Alternate Career Path
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Schneider, Alex; Burton, Neil – Management in Education, 2005
Kerry and Murdoch (1993), analysing the essential characteristics of leaders and school principals, raised two key questions: (1) What kind of leadership will schools require to help them face the next ten years?; and (2) How equipped are managers in school to provide that leadership? Traditionally, aspiring school principals emerge from the…
Descriptors: Leadership, Principals, Administrator Characteristics, Instructional Leadership
The Effective Principal: A Case Study of Ying Wa College, Hong Kong
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Burton, Neil; Brundrett, Mark; Yeung, John – Management in Education, 2005
It has been argued that "leadership" is seen as being centrally synonymous with school effectiveness and yet there is comparatively little evidence of the effects of leadership on school outcomes. More specifically, studies of principalship in Hong Kong have tended to be conducted in the quantitative tradition. The study described in this article…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Parent Associations, Administrative Organization