Winter 2016: Journal of Scholarship and Practice

The Winter 2016 issue of the AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice is about educational leadership. The first two articles—research studies written by Dario Sforza, Christopher Tienken, Eunyoung Kim and Drew Patrick—demand that those leading our schools consider research about the consequences that result from the misguided education laws and regulations set forth by policymakers and politicians.

Leaders, especially superintendents, need to be scholar-practitioners, staying informed about the research, but then having the courage to challenge irresponsible and damaging policy, often driven by political agendas, coming from their state houses and the U.S. Department of Education. This issue is also about ensuring that we not only prepare our school leaders to be such scholar-practitioners via rigorous and intellectually-demanding doctoral programs as found in David Parks study, but understand ways to expand the pool of eligible and talented leaders in the Elsa-Sophia Morote, et.al. study