Journal of Scholarship & Practice Articles

In this article, the authors describe the use of phenomenology and thematic analysis to interpret raw data from interviews about the lived experiences of urban and suburban administrators

The title is enough to gain attention among public school advocates who eagerly list this book as ammunition in their battles against private and choice schools.

Despite empirical evidence correlating the role of the principal with student achievement, researchers have seldom scrutinized principal selection methods over the past 60 years.

This study examined the influence of the student mobility rate on the high school graduation rate of schools in the state of New Jersey.

AASA, The School Superintendents Association would like to assume editorial privilege in this volume to thank Dr. Christopher Tienken for the time and effort he has given to the AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice.

The study used over 600 public schools for each grade level/subject combination. For all grade level/subject combinations, socioeconomic status (SES) by far had the largest predictive contribution to the dependent variable compared to the other predictor variables.

This paper presents results from an examination of the relationships between high school (HS) school day length and 2011 New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) Math and Language Arts Literacy test results.

Framing communication into five strategies, we call upon our collective thirty years of public school administration and leadership identifying communication in the abstract and sharing application examples from practice.

This paper was prepared as a response to a national trend towards lessening the requirements to become a public school superintendent

Local control is one of the traditional virtues of American public education credited for delivering the prosperity the nation has enjoyed for decades (Goldin, 2008). However this virtue has been eroded gradually over the years.