The author of this article writes about how this moment of technological explosion raises a host of important questions for education leaders that speak directly to the way people think about the potentials of technology in school.The author asserts that if technology is seen simply as additive, the questions will be about the technology: Should…

Beyond the limits of a conventional, administrative task-oriented approach to leadership, a view of adult/continuing education leadership in terms of the role of teacher can strengthen personal and organizational learning. (SK)

The writers offer a list of questions every new principal should ask about the school building. Knowing the answers will help to ensure that the building is maintained properly. (Author/MD)

Agrees with Brian Rowan's article on learning and teaching research in the same issue of "Educational Administration Quarterly." Builds on Rowan's contributions by presenting three major ideas: the cognitive perspective has yet to define adequately a core technology of teaching; foundational understandings of learning and teaching are inextricably…

Describes a 10-term model of the educational policy-making and implementation process. Discusses the roles, relationships, and interaction of the practitioner, policy maker, and researcher within the model. Describes the role of research and sets priorities for educational research into the content and context of the educational process. (SB)

In relating brain hemisphere differences to education and educational administration, the author reviews literature on the issue and discusses the concepts involved. For background, he briefly goes over the history of brain and cognition studies and the advent of "split-brain" studies and the "triune" brain theory. Definitions…

Administrators spend most of their time on noninstructional matters. Because they excuse this by claiming that nothing is known of the learning process, they need a systematic ordering of the basic, verified knowledge on learning. For instance, findings in learning research show that the capacity to learn school subjects is far more widely…

Agrees with Brian Rowan that ideas about teaching and learning have powerful implications for many aspects of school administration and that professional preparation must centrally engage these ideas. Presents three complementary themes from contemporary research that raise additional considerations and point in other directions: the sociocultural…

Continuing education in the health professions should stress the process approach--teaching learners how to learn. The administrator of continuing medical education should be an adult educator trained to be an educational facilitator, instructional designer, and manager of the learning environment. (SK)

Discusses student support systems in distance education based on experiences at the Open University (United Kingdom). Topics addressed include distance education versus traditional education; changes in the learning process; management theory; student support as a service industry; course production; resource allocation; and decision-making…

Reviews the Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) from the director's point of view, including the origins and basic structure of the program which ran for six years. The collaboration of teachers, advisers, and trainers is emphasized, research and evaluation procedures are discussed, and learning processes, computer studies, and distribution…

Intended to influence school districts that have the opportunity to build new schools, this document provides new designs for comprehensive high schools that would overcome the mismatch between school and life, the inequity of educational outcomes, and the lack of organizational effectiveness that plague many contemporary high schools. The designs…