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50 Years of ERIC
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Leithwood, Kenneth; Earl, Lorna – Peabody Journal of Education, 2000
Introduces a collection of articles on educational accountability, outlining the framework used to select and order the articles. The framework clarifies the concept of accountability and identifies assumptions and tools associated with four different approaches to accountability (market competition, decentralization, professionalization, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Competition, Decentralization
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Parker, Kirsten; Leithwood, Kenneth – Peabody Journal of Education, 2000
Examined the influence on schools and classrooms of advisory school councils. Interviews with students, teachers, administrators, and parents from five schools indicated that councils had weak positive to negative influences on schools and classrooms. More influential councils had facilitative principals and used a collaborative team approach.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Planning
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Leithwood, Kenneth; Duke, Daniel L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1998
Provides a classification and description of school leadership models found in contemporary, Western, English-language research literature, focusing on instructional leadership, transformational leadership, moral leadership, participative leadership, managerial leadership, and contingent leadership. For each category, the paper clarifies…
Descriptors: Administrators, Classification, Comparative Education, Contingency Management
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Hallinger, Philip; Leithwood, Kenneth – Peabody Journal of Education, 1998
Offers a rationale for studying the impact of school culture on school leadership, arguing that practical and academic grounds support a focus on societal culture in leadership studies, contending that management of people and organizations is a socially constructed process, and suggesting that since social culture influences values and norms…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Educational Theories
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Leithwood, Kenneth; And Others – Peabody Journal of Education, 1994
Drawing on research that considers out-of-school conditions, in-school conditions, and transformational leadership, the article constructs a strategy for building teachers' commitment to change, demonstrating that alterability of variables by facilitators of teacher commitment can positively influence curriculum reform. Findings explaining…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Leithwood, Kenneth; And Others – Peabody Journal of Education, 1993
Current school restructuring focuses too little on changes in principal appraisal procedures. The article considers the meaning of school restructuring and discusses change strategies that foster good school restructuring. A discussion of transformational leadership's role in school restructuring is presented along with guidelines for designing…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education