Purpose Instructional leadership has been an active area of educational administration
research over the past 30 years. However, there has been significant divergence in how …

Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush agreed on little, but united behind the No Child Left
Behind Act (NCLB). Passed in late 2001, it was hailed as a dramatic new departure in …

Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly
multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection …

This study presents a review of research on teachers' professional development (PD) as a
policy instrument. The analysis and synthesis of 78 studies showed three main theoretical …

The necessity for schools to implement human resources management (HRM) is
increasingly acknowledged. Specifically, HRM holds the potential of increasing student …

Background Calling Rooted in the traditions of the ministry, the notion of a calling has a long
and intimate association with the work of teaching (Mattingly, 1975). To be" called" means …

The subject of teachers' intentions to leave has recently captured the attention of
researchers and practitioners. This paper reports on a study that examined the workplace …

We examine whether working conditions in charter schools and traditional public schools
lead to different levels of job satisfaction among teachers. We distinguish among charter …

The micropolitics of schools is an evolving but arguably underdeveloped field of study
(Blasé & Anderson, 1995; Scribner, Aleman, & Maxy, 2003). Its conceptual boundaries and …

Though scholars agree that professional development (PD) is a key mechanism for
implementing education policies that call for teacher change, and that PD generally needs to …