Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 58 Issue 3

Relationships between the middle school concept and student demographics

Scott Christopher Woods, Jennifer Grace Cromley, Donald Gene Hackmann

This study explored implementation of the middle school concept (MSC) in Illinois middle-level schools, examining relationships between MSC implementation and schools' relative…

Fully online principal preparation: prevalence, institutional characteristics, geography

Frank Perrone, Mary F. Rice, Erin A. Anderson, Sajjid Budhwani

Principal preparation program pedagogy and course delivery are critical to principal candidates' preparedness to lead. Research around online program delivery, however, is…

Ideological leadership in public schools

Ori Eyal, Talya R. Schwartz, Izhak Berkovich

This study aims to explore the conception and construct of ideological leadership (IL) as it relates to public organizations, such as public schools, and to validate a tool for…

Commonplace and common language: Kentucky's district mission statements

W. Kyle Ingle, Terra Greenwell, Justin Woods

We sought to identify codes and themes in the mission statements of Kentucky's school districts and examine the relationship between district characteristics and the mission…

Why is everything old new again? Revisiting debates about the form and function of research in educational administration

Robert Donmoyer

This paper has a twofold purpose: (1) to demonstrate, largely with historical evidence, that, contrary to what some have argued, thinking about educational research articulated at…

Building the capacity for student leadership in high school: a review of organizational mechanisms from the field of student voice

Lindsay Lyons, Marc Brasof

The purpose of this paper is to understand the organizational mechanisms by which schools can increase opportunities for student leadership.

Surviving the reform: management usage of the garbage can model during implementation of reform

Emanuel Tamir, Mirit K. Grabarski

This paper aims to apply the garbage can model to identify factors that affect managerial decision-making processes in educational systems undergoing reforms.