AASA study: half of superintendents hold doctoral degrees.Slightly more than 50 percent of the nation's superintendents have earned a doctoral degree, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest AASA AASA American Association of School Administrators AASA Asian American Student Association AASA Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia AASA Aging and Adult Services Administration AASA Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army "Study of the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of School Superintendency Su`per`in`tend´en`cy n. 1. The act of superintending; superintendence. ." This represents almost S percent growth over AASA's 2000 national survey. However, the completion of a doctorate ranges dramatically by size of school district. Only 28 percent of superintendents in the smallest school districts (those with fewer than 1,000 students) reported they held doctoral degrees compared with 97 percent of superintendents whose districts enroll between 5,000 and 25,000 students. In the largest enrollment category (25,000 or more students), 80 percent of the superintendents said they had completed an Ed.D. or Ph.D. Of those holding a doctorate, the vast majority of superintendents (44 percent) do so in the fields of educational leadership or educational administration. Another 3 percent hold their doctorates in curriculum and instruction and 0.5 percent in special education. The 2006 superintendent study, like many of the previous AASA surveys, showed a majority believe their doctoral programs were useful--27 percent rated their doctoral studies as highly effective and another 30 percent called them effective. AASA's latest "Study of the American School Superintendency" was written by Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs E. Glass, a professor in the department of leadership, and Louis Louis, titular duke of Burgundy Louis, 1682–1712, titular duke of Burgundy; grandson of King Louis XIV of France. He became heir to the throne on the death (1711) of his father, Louis the Great Dauphin. A. Franceschini, senior research consultant with the Center for Research in Educational Policy, both at the University of Memphis The University of Memphis is a public research university located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, and is a flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system. . The study is based on a nationwide sample of 1,338 practicing superintendents who responded to a detailed questionnaire. AASA's previous studies were issued in 1923, 1933,19S0,1960,1970,1982, 1992 and 2000. Limited excerpts from the report will be available in September on the AASA website (www.aasa.org), where copies can be ordered. Doctorates Among Superintendents No doctorate 49.4% Doctorate in other fields 3.4% Doctorate in curriculum and instruction 3.1% Doctorate in educational leadership/administration 43.6% Doctorate in special education .5% Source: AASA Study of the American School Superintendency, 2006 Note: Table made from pie chart. |
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