Educational administration is an applied professional field that is more like medicine and law than it is like sociology or economics. However, education has struggled for years to take a broad and somewhat ill-defined field of endeavor and create a hard discipline. This attempt has helped separate the practitioner and the professor. Collaborative arrangements between university personnel and elementary and secondary school personnel would result in a data base that could improve the quality of educational research and lead to increased knowledge in the field. (Author/MLF).