This study reveals the challenges confronting small, rural "frontier" schools in Montana and the practices that contribute to their sustainability. A Montana frontier school is defined as a school district with 200 or fewer students and its attendant community in a county with five or fewer people per square mile. The researcher…

The Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) is sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education and is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. TFS is a follow-up survey of selected elementary and secondary school teachers who participated in the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). SASS is the…

The purpose of this study was to examine the leadership practices of principals identified as servant leaders. The conceptual framework used to access the leadership behaviours was the leadership practices advocated by Kouzes and Posner. Statistical analysis included a multivariate test to determine if the demographic variables were significantly…

Research on gender and education is somewhat limited in Scotland, and research that explores the further education sector from a gender perspective is particularly lacking. This paper argues for such work, and underlines its importance given the prominence of FE in the Scottish policy context as a key contributor to the knowledge economy and…

Administrators who have been trained in the sciences may be more effective than those who have been trained in the humanities, according to a review of the literature. This paper asserts that the effectiveness of superintendents is a function both of their specific preparation for administration and of their educational backgrounds. The…

Presents partial results of a survey to determine what qualifications, both educational and experiential, an educational purchasing agent should possess. (PG)

DATA GATHERED FROM QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES AND FROM BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS ARE USED TO STUDY 333 JUNIOR COLLEGE PRESIDENTS AND OTHER PERSONNEL WITH MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES IN BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND IS COMPARED IN TERMS OF LEVEL OF DEGREE HELD AND PERIOD OF APPOINTMENT. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AND…

To investigate a possible gap between the outward acceptance of the AASA Code of Ethics and the individual members' internal or even public adherence to the Code, questionnaires containing 15 anecdotal situations which might face any typical school administrator were sent to 444 chief school administrators. A separate sheet solicited…

This speech argues that educational administrators are ill-equipped to meet contemporary challenges because of their lack of present-day administrative knowledge. Two general modes of generating such knowledge are outlined and contrasted -- the humanist (involving verbal theory and "soft" data) and the scientific (involving formalized…

The report attempts to assess events now in progress, discern future trends, and explicate emerging problems, with the end in view of making tomorrow's science administration and leadership more successful. The major points considered include the following: the environment of the science administrator-leader is becoming increasingly unstable,…

People differ. This is a fact educators must acknowledge in planning inservice activities for both teachers and administrators, the author points out. Only when we design inservice programs to best fit the individual will we be able to help people achieve professional growth. (Editor)

An examination of the replies of 1,402 women in management positions to a national survey indicates that much progress has been made--more women are in the workforce; fewer women perceive their management problems to be sex-oriented; and 73 percent felt their training to be acceptable. (Author/IRT)

This article reports some findings of an empirical study about the perceptions and orientations of women managers in three large organizations. (Author)

Reports the results of a survey that asked library administrators who had demonstrated intrapreneurial behavior to describe themselves as entrepreneurs. The results are presented as profiles of behavioral characteristics and views shared by these individuals. (CLB)