Leadership Lessons from Comprehensive School Reforms » (1st Edition)

Joseph Murphy is a professor of education at Peabody College of Education of Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.

In the public schools he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the Executive Assistant to the Chief Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding President of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as Department Chair and Associate Dean.

He is past Vice President of AERA and is the Chair of the Interstate Schools Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook of Research on Education Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).

His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 13 books in this area and edited another 11. His most recent authored volumes include: The Quest for a Center: Notes on the State of the Profession of School Administration (1999), The Productive High School (2001), and Understanding and Assessing theCharter School Movement (2002).

The publisher's motto is "success for all learners." To that end, this volume examines the under-explored leadership dimension of the comprehensive school reform (CSR) movement. In introducing this integrated strategy for restructuring schools, Murphy (public policy and education, Vanderbilt U.) and Datnow (theory and policy studies in education, U. of Toronto) review three reform eras in CSR development from 1980 to the present, and its ideological roots in these eras of intensification, restructuring, and reformation. The dozen contributed essays review practical and policy lessons from new American schools designs (expeditionary learning schools such as Outward Bound), the Annenberg challenge initiatives, and other national CSR designs which favor "distributed" over technical -bureaucratic leadership. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR