Full Description
The tenth annual NCPEA yearbook examines the pressing issues facing today's educational leaders from a variety of philosophical perspectives. Standardized testing, the impact of market forces on public education, zero tolerance disciplinary polices, gender and ethnic diversity, and issues related to the preparation of school leaders are among the topics discussed in the 25 essays. This divergent dialogue speaks to professors of educational administration, superintendents, principals, and others engaged in this changing and challenging field.
Contents
Part 1 Review Board
Part 2 Preface
Part 3 Part 1 Invited Chapters
Chapter 4 President's Message
Chapter 5 Cocking Lecture: Improving Student Achievement: Some Structural Incompatibilities
Chapter 6 Standardized Testing and Educational Standards: Implications for the Future of Emancipatory Leadership in U.S. Schools
Chapter 7 The Fateful Turn: Understanding the Discursive Practice of Educational Administration
Chapter 8 The (Un)Changing World of School Leadership: A Journey from Discourse to Practice
Chapter 9 Leadership as a Form of Learning: Implications for Theory and Practice
Chapter 10 The Changing Environment for School Leaders: Market Forces
Chapter 11 Superintendents and Board Members Grappling with Zero Tollerance Policies
Chapter 12 A Call for Professional-Organizational Self-Scrutiny
Part 13 Part 2 Leadership Preparation
Chapter 14 The Impact of Diversity in Educational Administration
Chapter 15 The Need for a Leadership Practice Field: An Antidote for an Ailing Internship
Chapter 16 Small Classes or Accountability? Using Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, Class-Size Outcomes, and Other Data to Demonstrate the Necessity of Critique
Chapter 17 Learning What They Need to Know: School Leaders' Lessons of Experience
Chapter 18 Issues the Mentors Share with Proteges
Chapter 19 Change and Transformation in an Educational Leadership Program
Chapter 20 Best Best-Practices: Assessments in Non-Traditional Educational Administration Preparation Programs
Chapter 21 A Journey to Transform Educational Leadership Graduate Programs: The University of South Florida Story
Part 22 Part 3: Leadership in Practice
Chapter 23 Toward Ethically Responsible Leadership in a New Era of High Stakes Accountability
Chapter 24 The Man in the Principal's Office (Re)Visited by a Woman
Chapter 25 Changing Times, Changing Relationships: An Exploration of Current Trends Influencing the Relationship between Superintendents and Boards of Education
Chapter 26 Politics and the Socialization of Superintendents
Chapter 27 Unrestricted Reemployment of Retired Administrators: Effective Policy or a Cause for Concern?
Chapter 28 Addressing Mentor-Principals' Lifelong Learning Needs in the Preparation of Principal Candidates
Chapter 29 School Leaders' Perceptions of Multicultural Competencies: Implications for School Leadership
Chapter 30 Women in School Leadership: Taking Steps to Help Them Make the Leap
Chapter 31 Administrator Entry Year Programming: A Cross-Institutional Pilot Program—Process, Program Descriptions, and Lessons Learned
Part 32 Author Index
Part 33 About the Editors
