Purpose: Emotions have a pervasive, predictable, sometimes deleterious but other times instrumental effect on decision making. Yet the influence of emotions on educational leaders' decision making has been largely underexplored. To optimize educational leaders' decision making, this article builds on the prevailing data-driven decision-making…

Purpose: This review study aims to bridge neuroscience and educational leadership by exploring the neural mechanisms of the constructs relevant to educational leadership. Research Methods: The reviewed literature includes 69 neuroscience studies and 4 books on neuroscience. The brain activities and neurotransmitters associated with the constructs…

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to suggest the structure and content of an educational leadership program whose aim is to prepare principals for social justice work. Research Design: The authors have conceptualized foundational components for a comprehensive principalship program focused on social justice. They assert that educational…

Explores the competing demands imposed by the ethics of care and justice in an urban high school. Using the case of a multiethnic urban high school grappling with attendance and truancy problems, describes school community members's varying perspectives regarding their school as care-giving and justice-seeking. In actual practice, school members…

Purpose: A subgroup of principals--leaders for social justice--guide their schools to transform the culture, curriculum, pedagogical practices, atmosphere, and schoolwide priorities to benefit marginalized students. The purpose of the article is to develop a theory of this social justice educational leadership. Research Design: This empirical…

Analyzes the probable impact of substantially increased tuition to public universities and colleges, viewing public tuition as a form of taxation, and concludes that the middle-income student and his-her family would bear a disproportionately large share of the burden resulting from a tuition increase. (Author/IRT)

The social justice discourse in education has been critiqued by Bowers and others for its lack of attention to a broad range of related ecological issues. This article analyzes and critiques the current discourse of social justice in the field of educational leadership and offers an expanded concept of socioecological justice in schools. Arguing…

Although William P. Foster assumed the critical theorist's stance of revealing the presumptions and assumptions of educational leadership, he, among others, also provided the underpinnings for the field's current attention to issues of social justice. This article furthers the call, which Foster articulated in his final article, to assert…

During a period of school restructuring, educational administrators need to consider their responsibility to promote an ethical school environment. This article develops three foundational ethical themes (critique, justice, and caring) as the pillars underlying ethical schools. (53 references) (MLH)

Uses combination of legal research, policy analysis, and quantitative research to examine the impact of two Supreme Court decisions, "New Jersey v. T.L.O" and "Vernonia v. Acton," on student Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure. (Contains 1 table, 4 figures, 87 references)(PKP)

Societal barriers to the successful education of Black children were identified by the noted historian Carter G. Woodson more than 70 years ago in his classic text "The Mis-Education of the Negro." Woodson argued that there were serious problems with inaccurate, ill-planned, depoliticized curriculum content and lack of resources, as well…

In this article, I draw on current scholarship about leadership for social justice, my own (and others') empirical research in schools, and my previous experience as a K-12 educator to develop a framework intended to help educational leaders think about leading for social justice. I critically examine some ways in which the status quo marginalizes…

Although many agree that theory, research, and practice should be intertwined to support the type of schooling (and society) that values rather than marginalizes, few scholars offer ground-breaking, pragmatic approaches to developing truly transformative leaders. From a critical theorist perspective, this article offers a practical,…

Schools in America are facing rapidly changing demographics, and because of those changing demographics, this article makes the following propositions. First, the increasing demographic changes in urban schools demand new leadership approaches. Second, because many of the urban educational demands are shaped by ongoing social and cultural issues…

The concept of equity traps evolved from a qualitative study that revealed the conscious and unconscious thinking patterns and behaviors that trap teachers, administrators, and others, preventing them from creating schools that are equitable, particularly for students of color. Although the results of this original study exposed these equity…