This article describes an innovative approach, developed by North Carolina State University, to prepare leaders specifically for work in rural schools in high poverty districts. Operating with Race-to-the-Top funding, the Northeast Leadership Academy is a selective program with embedded practice and focused summer community internships. The…

The Educational Leadership Master's Cohort Program at Delta State University was redesigned in 2011 to reflect current industry standards and streamline the program. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, the program has provided a nationally acclaimed model for principal preparation. The recent redesign focused on preparing school principals to…

This study examines the demographics of SACs and the schools they serve, and proposes that demographic similarity with the school principal influences the SAC membership. The findings draw attention to the likelihood that appointment to SAC chair may be contingent on an individual's demographic similarity with the school principal. Principals also…

This article explores the full-time clinical faculty position in selected educational leadership programs. Due to a gap in the literature, the need exists to engage in research studies to gain a greater understanding of this position. Questions guiding this study included: What is the experiential background of individuals who assume full-time…

This article reports findings from formative assessments of one state's administrator mentoring and induction program during two years of program piloting in 2002/03 and 2003/04. The purpose of this evaluation research was to establish baseline data and to detect problem areas, so that changes could be made in subsequent years. More broadly, the…

One of the most critical responsibilities to educational leaders and administrators is the task of planning the staffing of schools and school districts with the qualified professionals required to deliver high quality educational programs. This study addressed recruiting qualified school counselors to staff schools in the 27th largest school…

Student learning portfolios have become increasingly popular in educational administration preparation programs due to their many uses and range of applications. Here, Norton documents the nature and extent of its usage nationwide. (Contains 7 tables.)

Facilitating participatory processes in graduate leadership classrooms appears to be a natural precursor to students modeling the development of democratic environments in their future work. Doing so, however, might require the involvement of students in a variety of activities heretofore the domain of professors. One example of such a democratic…

Compares Russian and United States definitions and content of educational leadership and management. Draws implications for collaboration between the United States and Russia in the area of educational leadership preparation and practice. (Contains 12 references.) (PKP)

Presents the University Council of Educational Administration as a political response to the difficulties in educational administration preparation programs that have arisen in the 1970s. (Author/IRT)

In administrative inquiry, the scientific tradition is utilized less frequently than the humanistic tradition. Such imbalance in perspectives may be a cause of the acknowledged poverty of the knowledge base. Departments of educational administration should encourage the existence of proponents of both perspectives within their ranks. (Author/WM)

There are positive signs for higher education that are not discussed in "The Changing Politics of Education": reduced resources are causing institutions to become more cost-conscious and efficient in the management and allocation of those resources. The prospects for the future are not all grim. (Author/IRT)

Because the problems of education have become more administrative and less educational, it seems that the thrust of training should be away from managerial generalism to skill specialists. One way this could happen would be for schools of education and of business to create joint programs. (Author/IRT)

Focuses on three management tools--the Delphi technique, Bayesian statistics, and Monte Carlo simulation--in order to simulate a problem-solving/decision-making situation with which an educational administrator may be faced. (Author)

Presents some of the results of and information learned in a recent nationwide survey of 140 school systems that were implementing PPBS. Focuses on the development of planning activities that can minimize the impact of problems or obstacles on the implementation of performance plans. (Author/IRT)