ABSTRACT
Educational administration is coming to be seen by practitioners, policymakers, and scholars as unique among forms of administration and management; it should be shaped and directed by the essential work of learning. Although Kenneth Leithwood, Doris Jentzi and Rosanne Steinbach advanced thinking about educational leadership to include the theme of transformation, they focused attention exclusively on the organizational work of the adults in schools. Richard Elmore, a scholar at the forefront of thinking about school renewal, has also called for a new structure for school leadership. Elmore's call to the field of educational administration is this: Turn your schools into learning organizations, for only by being involved with the teachers in learning how to bring all students up to acceptable achievement of the standards-based curriculum will you and your schools survive. Joseph Murphy composed a challenging analysis of the current state of educational administration programs published by the University Council for Educational Administration.
