This integrative literature review offers a portrait of the "middle leader" in lower secondary school, emphasising practical insights. Initiated by a Danish case study, it shows the middle leader as a formally appointed teacher with an add-on responsibility for pedagogical development in collaboration with colleagues and management. By…

With growing research attention in artificial intelligence in education (AIED), there is a profusion of systematic reviews that have investigated AI integration in a wide variety of educational contexts, including PreK-12 schools and higher education. Even though existing systematic reviews have explored effects of AI on education, few studies…

This study delves into the leadership experiences of Latinx women in their professional work contexts who serve as K-12 school principals in public schools located in New Jersey. It accentuates the obstacles faced by these Latina administrators in their roles as school principals to deconstruct negative perceptions and biases toward Latina…

The U.S. Department of Education's Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program awards grants to states, districts, or other organizations to help partner schools implement community schools, which seek to provide coordinated, comprehensive supports to children and their families. This snapshot charts FSCS's progress in two foundational areas:…

"District Leadership for Racial Equity" shows how transformative changes can occur across diverse districts when leaders take purposeful action in support of racial equity. Developed as part of the Racial Equity Leadership Network initiative led by Southern Education Foundation, this collection provides an opportunity for leaders to…

The fully updated third edition of "Strategic Leadership of Change in Higher Education" provides a clear overview of the basic principles of effective leadership and management of change, and assists strategic leaders to better contextualise -- both globally and more locally -- the external environment in which they are operating. It…

Purpose: We compare the equity logics embedded in nine networked improvement communities (NICs) across two districts, how these equity logics are informed by using improvement science (IS) as an approach to continuous improvement, and the consequences of these equity logics for improvement work. Methods: We conducted a comparative analysis of two…

This small labor history studies the rhetoric and techniques used by administrators in the University System of Maryland to disperse and co-opt nascent graduate worker and adjunct unionization efforts in the 2010s. Those efforts centered on exploiting the strange social status of academic labor, claiming to speak for workers, and relying on the…

Background: Previous literature has increasingly highlighted the critical importance of quality leadership in fostering student success (Grissom & Bartanen, 2019; Leithwood et al., 2004). As a result, educational policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels have implemented a range of policies aimed at strengthening the preparation and…

Academic libraries are fundamental in promoting equitable access to education but are often overlooked and underfunded. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified these inequities. This study investigates how 39 library deans and directors perceived decision-making by university administration during COVID-19's onset. Open-ended survey questions were sent to…

Research and development needs effective and efficient management as it is the vehicle by which organizations and economies create opportunity, innovation and secure a stream of future products and services. However, research projects face various challenges which may lead to unsatisfactory performance. Various studies have shown that traditional…

Education researchers claim collaboration between school district leaders and principals is one of the key factors in successful school districts. Collaboration creates alignment and coherence throughout the organization. Factors that foster this collaboration are limited throughout education literature. This qualitative study explored factors…

This study investigated the development and management of existing facilities and infrastructure at the International Class Program (ICP) of the State Institute for Islamic Studies (SIUS), Indonesia. The researchers adopted a descriptive qualitative approach involving nine informants in the professional capacities of chancellor, vice chancellor,…

Since 2011, the Syria crisis has displaced internationally more than six million people. Jordan is the third-largest host country for Syrian refugees, including more than 212,000 Syrian refugees of school age by 2018. This country study explores the way in which the Government of Jordan and specifically the Ministry of Education has responded to…

Over the past 30 years, 'Aldea' (global village), the Education for Environmental and Sustainability (ESE) School Programme has been implemented in over one thousand public schools in Andalusia, Southern Spain. The present study analyses the beliefs of a group of teacher coordinators who have experience of implementing the Aldea programme in their…