Recent research has studied superintendents who survive in high-risk periods, those years in a school district when the odds of superintendent involuntary turnover are the highest. In this article several long-term superintendents are interviewed and their survival and conflict management skills shared. (WD)

Discusses contradictions and tendencies inherent in the dominant ideology and formal structure of educational governance. Notes increasing turbulence in the current social and political environment of education that accentuate these factors. Proposes that within the turbulent environment, contradictions and tendencies may become a source of…

This paper addresses three levels of change in political and educational relations. Level one focuses on educational systems' service functions; level two involves adjustments of educational politics; and level three entails conditions of conflicts about education falling within states' general politics. Politicization refers to conflict…