Describes how the board of trustees of Gardner-Webb University backed its president, who had ordered an athlete's grade changed, and demoted two administrators who had criticized him. (EV)

A survey of teachers and administrators revealed that despite pressure to raise test scores and student achievement, teachers and administrators still value ethical decision making and state that they have not changed their decision making. (EV)

Examines the important role that managers play in facilitating supportive communication and helping interactions in the workplace. Notes supervisors' personal problems, their help seeking for those problems, and their perceptions of managers' support. Examines managers' attitudes about helping and supporting troubled supervisors, their awareness…

Describes how Dennis Keller and Ronald Taylor, founders and corporate heads of DeVry University, differ in many ways, but share a common vision for the education company they jointly run. (EV)

Describes how Georgia Nugent brings her training as a classicist and her credibility as a scholar and teacher to her job leading Princeton's efforts in instructional technology. (EV)

The author's advice for for a school board superintendent is to assume incompetence instead of malevolence. Board members who behave inappropriately are a minority, and those with malicious intent are extremely rare. Most misbehaving board members act out of frustration. They may not understand the appropriate role of a board member.…

School leaders face the difficult challenge of finding teachers who are highly qualified, committed, and prepared to ensure that all students achieve at levels mandated by NCLB. The pervasive strategy attempted by school districts to recruit teachers to high need schools is incentive programs that include either salary enhancement or bonuses.…

Research identifying relationships between principals' instructional leadership behavior and academic achievement is problematic because it fails to consider the perspectives of the "consumer" (i.e., students). Consequently, this study investigated what students perceive principals do to influence their academic achievement. Students identified…

This discussion focuses on a research project designed to identify critical leadership behaviors and characteristics of very successful elementary school principals. The project which ultimately became a book published jointly by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and Corwin Press used research methodology inspired by…

Legislation has directed schools to convene school councils that typically address issues related to curriculum, instruction, budget, and governance as one means to improve schooling. However, the expectation for improved schools through this involvement remains a challenge. The study examined issues connected to council operation in two large…

Purpose--The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between interactional justice, as a type of organizational justice that reflects the teachers' perceived fairness of supervisor treatment, and their non-task behavior in terms of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and deviant workplace behavior (DWB).…

Recent corporate scandals have led to an increased community awareness and expectation for ethical behavior on the part of public school administrators, who are the CEOs of school districts and campuses. Previously, ethics has received little attention from professional organizations and even less attention in educator preparation programs. With…

This qualitative study investigated the types of conflict elementary principals encounter and the behaviors of the principals that led to successful or unsuccessful results of those conflict situations. The Critical Incident Technique was used as the means of gathering data for this study. Data were gathered from 32 principals in a midwestern…

Summarizes a study to identify stress experienced by 10 Australian elementary principals in their schools, record duration of stress periods experienced, and ascertain what particular administrative behaviors were associated with stress. The greatest stressors were certain teacher and student behaviors, executive staff performance, policy and…

Finds that managers' communication openness was positively and significantly related to subordinates' motivation. Finds a positive, yet tentative, relationship between openness and immediacy, indicating that these variables occur together. (SR)