ABSTRACT
Educators at all levels stand in the midst of change today as never before. International alliances, scientific consensus, democratic principles, and humanitarian values that long have been taken for granted in many nations are under scrutiny by angry and restive populations. Times such as these require clear thinking, impeccable research methodologies, and trustworthy scholarly findings that can illuminate the key issues at stake for public deliberation. Without these the continued progress of humanity toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2030 will be cast into doubt. Readers of Future Directions of Educational Change will engage with a host of challenging questions. Some of the questions in Future Directions of Educational Change are epistemic or methodological in nature. The preparation and professional development of school leaders is an area that has been widely neglected, with less than 4 percent of all reforms in the countries comprising the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) devoted to this area.
