Explores aspects of learning and development within leadership preparation: preparing leaders for schools; learning, development, and forms of knowledge; the logic of activity and experience; and mentoring, partnerships, and networks. The paper discusses criticisms of leadership preparation, forms of knowledge in learning and leading, the logic of…

This article presents brief portraits, cameos, of the implementation status of New Information Technology programs in the member countries of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 5 non-European countries. It concludes with a description of the EEC Summer University, a cooperative software development laboratory which produced 13 educational…

This article explores the concept of vertical equity in light of school reform efforts aimed at increasing academic outcomes for all students. Vertical equity, or the idea that students who bring certain educational needs to the classroom require additional resources to address those needs within the educational process, is useful as a way to…

This article provides a critical look into national trends of the achievement gaps between Whites and Blacks and between Whites and Hispanics over the last 3 decades based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics assessments. It examines multiple facets of inequity underlying the racial and ethnic achievement gaps from 3…

In this article, I draw several lessons learned about how to assess student, classroom, and teacher effects, with a specific focus on performance-based teacher evaluations. One lesson is that hierarchical linear modeling techniques are helpful in sorting out the magnitude of impacts at these three different levels of the education system. The…