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Seeley, David S. – School Administrator, 1984
Educational leadership needs to change. Principals have been trained to be managers first and leaders second. Current educational needs demand that principal-training priorities be reversed. (MD)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership
Lacy, Vickie – Texas Study of Secondary Education Research Journal, 1989
Developed at Texas A and M University, the Management Profile is a strategy for management skills building for school administrators. To show how it has been utilized, a particular experiment with a group of principals is examined. Plans for further development of skills building strategies are mentioned. (SI)
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Hawley, Willis D. – School Administrator, 1989
The recent National Policy Board for Educational Administration report ("Improving the Preparation of School Administrators: An Agenda for Reform") does not address fundamental questions or make convincing proposals concerning the preparation of school administrators. The report's nine overall recommendations for improving school administration…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Education, Administrators, Change Strategies
Small, Sue E. – 1985
Research evidence clearly indicates the need to improve the school administrator's effectiveness as a key factor in educational reform. One difficulty is balancing administrators' wants with organizational needs. Inservice education planners' examination of these wants and needs led to the client-based needs assessment process described in this…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Goldman, Jay P. – School Administrator, 1989
Three public school district superintendents and one university school of education dean provide quoted reactions to the recent reform proposals of the National Policy Board for Educational Administration on the topic of administrator education. (SI)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Change Strategies
Tewel, Kenneth J. – 1995
This book provides guidelines for leaders who seek fundamental and lasting school restructuring. Following the introduction, chapter 2 presents an explanation of the core concepts of school restructuring and explains the significance of those disabling habits of mind and practice that dominate most traditionally organized high schools and inhibit…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, High Schools, Leadership
Peer reviewedLindahl, Ronald A. – Planning and Changing, 1986
While pressures to revise administrator evaluation systems are increasing, the actual process demands great time, energy, and commitment to planned change. This article describes a large urban school district's efforts to redefine evaluation purposes, develop a process and principles, and implement and assess the new system. Includes 23…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Drury, William R. – School Administrator, 1989
The National Policy Board for Educational Administration report ("Improving the Preparation of School Administrators: An Agenda for Reform") reiterates the need for program improvements for educational administrators. Obstacles to any real change occurring in the near future are pointed out. (six references) (SI)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Change Strategies
Download full textOregon Univ., Eugene. Center for Educational Policy and Management. – 1983
This workshop presenter's guide is intended for use by administrators in training one another in the Project Leadership program developed by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA). The purpose of this particular guide is to help school administrators with the implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Disabilities
Gousha, Richard P.; And Others – School Administrator, 1987
According to two recent surveys, the ongoing revolution in standards for school administrators has affected all 52 state agencies. If the current trend persists, nearly all state departments of education, school districts, and colleges and universities will experience changes in preparation, certification, and employment standards for school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Certification, Educational Change
Finn, Chester E. – School Administrator, 1986
According to the assistant secretary of the U. S. Department of Education, unsolved problems facing the educational excellence movement include lack of educational performance data, shifts in curriculum content, expected shortage of qualified teachers, and lack of training standards for educational leaders. A critique by the Minneapolis…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedWood, Fred H.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1985
The experience of the Kenmore (New York) Public Schools with an inservice program for school board members and district level administrators and staff suggests the issues that must be addressed when convincing district personnel and board members to accept and support the concept of local school initiatives for educational improvement. (PGD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Board of Education Role, Educational Change
Creed, Philip J. – 1986
This report describes and analyzes the role played by key actors in initiating and implementing major reform in the management of the department of education in Victoria, the second largest state in Australia. Focus is during 1979-84, the time of the greatest administrative reform in the department's history. Study goals include the analysis of…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Role, Consultants, Educational Administration
Croghan, John H.; Lake, Dale G. – 1984
This paper addresses the need for a strategic focus on the improvement of the principalship. Whatever technical changes are made in a school district's formal system for selecting, training, appraising, compensating, and certifying principals, there are predictable consequences for the political and cultural dimensions of that district (that is,…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection, Educational Change
Peer reviewedAslund, Anders – Oxford Studies in Comparative Education, 1992
Reviews developments in economic education, economic research, and management training in the former Soviet Union since 1985. Contends that the demise of the Soviet command economy has left economics education in a shambles. Concludes that management training is blooming in the first stages of capitalism and will be a base for the renewal of…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economic Research, Economics Education, Educational Change
