This study sought to expand Greenleaf's (1970) "feeling that one wants to serve" to examine public service motivation and professional commitment in an education context. The participants of this study were graduate education students enrolled in three East Coast universities. The sample was stratified into three groups based on their…

Many school districts struggle to recruit sufficient high-quality principals for their schools. A variety of conditions contribute to this challenge, including the retirement of the baby boom cohort and diminishing interest in administrative careers due to the expanded responsibilities of school principals. In response, districts enact a range of…

While the conceiving of 21st-century schools has rightly included much discussion on curriculum and instruction, changing demands and conditions also present necessary changes in the way that student behavior is managed. A review of the literature on student discipline over the past decade reveals three particular issues that warrant attention in…

Based on publicly available data, the study examined the relationship between adequate yearly progress status and teachers' perceptions of the quality of their professional development. The sample included responses of 5,558 teachers who completed the questionnaire in the 2005-2006 school year. Results of the statistical analysis show a…

Educational administration as a scholarly discipline is dominated by a modernist world view encapsulated in a positivistic "reality" and legitimate, "factual" knowledge base. The postmodern critique of positivism has called the basic premises of foundational legitimacy into question and represents the field's most serious…

Rapid change and information overload are forcing educational administration professors to stress skills in mixed scanning and visioning. Professors must teach students to be visionary individuals who possess the capacity to care deeply for others; the ability to communicate a clear message in simple, persuasive language; and the commitment to…

Examines the progress of problem-based learning in the University of Colorado (Denver)'s educational administration program, stressing the roles of multiple design innovations, multiple intelligences, and constructivist approaches. Program developers learned five major lessons: clarifying roles, linking assessments with standards, defining the…

Education is a fundamentally moral enterprise. Educational administration must change to reflect ethics at its core. Traditional educational administration is informed by constructs of power and leadership and has developed knowledge bases on modest theoretical grounds. Together these elements dominate discourse and inhibit the dialog necessary…

Educational literature increasingly stresses the importance of ethics in school leadership, the need to recognize professional responsibilities as basic ethical imperatives, and the need for administrator preparation programs to reflect these neglected areas. Within this context, this paper addresses the complexities involved in translating…

Indepth interviews with two female and two male school leaders, one of each gender who were "closeted" in their sexuality and one of each who were "open." Foucault's sovereign and disciplinary power and normalization conceptually framed the study. Interviewee's fear of disclosure resulted in reproducing heteronormative power.…

Although recent waves of educational reform have prophesied a pessimistic view of educational administration, this article offers evidence to the contrary. Projected vacancies in the professorate, educational administration, and teaching will offer qualified women and minority candidates increased opportunities. Nongraded instructional practices…

Changing sociological trends and technological advances will require the nation's university system to prepare better qualified graduates for school administration careers. Without an emphasis on proficient, high-tech skills; stringent standards; and redirected certification procedures, the twenty-first-century administrator will not succeed.…

Addresses two levels of educational leadership, focusing on a second-level envisionment that transcends national interests and aims to improve the social conditions of all nations and all individuals. This new leadership definition has policy implications that should be supported by resource allocations and a forum promoting education as an…

Summarizes a study comparing male and female educational administration professors' perceptions about how they obtained their positions and factors regarded as critical to the job search. Professors' perceptions were highly similar, but noteworthy gender-based differences emerged regarding the relative importance of interviews, perceived…

Investigates the needs of graduate students in educational administration programs, focusing on what learning would prove most valuable to administrators dealing with diverse constituencies and cultures. From indepth interviews, researchers found that graduate students learned far more about diversity (of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class)…