This title boldly addresses the most fundamental and contested issues in the field, including culturally relevant and distributed leadership; critical policy and practice issues predicting the new centurys conflict; the paradox of changes; and the promises, paradoxes, and pitfalls of standards for educational leaders.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Educational Leadership at Century's Beginning—A Continuing Search for the Philosopher's Stone - Fenwick W. English
• Part I. Multiple Lenses of Democratic Leadership
• 1. A History of Public School Leadership: The First Century, 1837–1942 - Ira E. Bogotch
• 2. Culturally Relevant Leadership for Complex 21st-Century School Contexts - Floyd D. Beachum
• 3. Social Justice: Seeking a Common Language - Alan R. Shoho, Betty M. Merchant, and Catherine A. Lugg
• 4. Distributed Leadership and Democratic Community - Jeffrey S. Brooks and Lisa A. W. Kensler
• Part II. Management, Organization, and Law
• 5. The Paradox of Change in Public Schooling and Education Leadership - Carol A. Mullen
• 6. Pivotal Points: History, Development, and Promise of the Principalship - Kathleen M. Brown
• 7. The School Superintendent: Roles, Challenges, and Issues - Theodore J. Kowalski and C. Cryss Brunner
• 8. The Role of Education Law in Leadership Preparation Programs - Charles J. Russo
• Part III. Educational Politics and Policy: Creating Effective, Equitable, and Democratic Schools
• 9. Critical Policy/Practice Arenas Predicting 21st-Century Conflict - JoAnn Danelo Barbour
• 10. Educational Leadership and the New Economy: Keeping the “Public” in Public Schools - Gary L. Anderson and Mónica Pini
• 11. Standards for Educational Leaders: Promises, Paradoxes, and Pitfalls - Rosemary Papa
• 12. Wild Patience: Women in School Administration - Charol Shakeshaft
• 13. Metanoia in Educational Leadership: An Alternative Perspective for School Leadership - Cheryl L. Bolton
• Part IV. Theories of Leadership: Research Problems and Practices
• 14. The Nature of Inquiry in Educational Leadership - Michelle D. Young and Gerardo R. López
• 15. The Development of Leadership Thought and Practice in the United States - Gary M. Crow and Margaret Grogan
• 16. Exploring Aesthetic Dimensions of Leadership: Re-establishing Human Agency - Eugenie A. Samier
• Part V. The Micropolitics of School Leadership
• 17. Curriculum Leadership: The Administrative Survival Skill in a Test-Driven Culture and a Competitive Educational Marketplace - Fenwick W. English and Betty E. Steffy
• 18. Teacher Preparation and Staffing in U.S. Schools - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
• 19. The Gaposis Syndrome: Uses and Misuses of Tests - Robert J. Wright
• 20. Issues of Teaching and Learning - Eric Haas and Leslie Poynor
• 21. New Approaches for School Design - Jeffrey A. Lackney
• 22. Labor Relations and the Challenges of Leading - Todd A. DeMitchell
• 23. Budgeting, Finance, and Planning - William K. Poston, Jr.
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors