Journal of Scholarship & Practice Articles

What are indicators of superintendent trustworthiness as experienced and perceived by elementary school principals?

This nationwide study of 532 female school district superintendents, offers compelling evidence that unconscious gender bias exists on the job and further inhibits equitable female representation in the superintendency.

This book, as an ethnography, comes straight from the author’s perspective of her eight years working and observing the Crow Tribe in Montana

The Journal publishes accepted manuscripts in the following categories: (1) Evidence-based Practice, (2) Original Research, (3) Research-informed Commentary, and (4) Book Reviews.

We are in a moment of opportunity. The struggle over who controls the future of America’s public schools may come down to a matter of trust. Ken Mitchell

As a retired superintendent and now professor of educational leadership, I spend a lot of my professional time with superintendents, assistant superintendents, and building leaders.

The purpose of this exploratory, descriptive study was to investigate teachers’ perceptions of three types of feedback on students’ performance to guide instructional improvements.

This study examined why schools and districts transitioned from traditional education systems to competency-based, the challenges and benefits

Americans like to rank. We like standings. We assign scores - numerical ones - to sort and select our favorites, best, and worst. We make decisions based on polls that rank songs, movies, restaurants, places to live or retire, and colleges to attend.

This commentary explores how the omnipresence of letter grades and grade point average (GPA) as metrics in American education encourage uncritical acceptance of current grading practices despite the inherent inequity and flaws that harm students and institutions.