Studies Cite Lack of Diversity In Top Positions
Demand for district superintendents will be substantial in the next few years as a wave of top administrators retires, opening career doors for women and minorities to make gains in a profession in which they're still extremely underrepresented, two reports conclude.
The national studies are scheduled for release this week at the annual meeting of the American Association of School Administrators in San Francisco. The first is a survey conducted each decade for the Arlington, Va.-based AASA that provides a broad range of data on the people who run the nation's roughly 14,000 school districts.
The second study, "Career Crisis in the School Superintendency?," was led by Bruce S. Cooper of Fordham University in New York City, and involved a survey of 2,979 superintendents...
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