Marching Into a New Millennium: Challenges to Educational Leadership.

Professor of Leadership and Technology, Dowling College, Oakdale, N.Y.

For more than a half-century, the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration, comprised of faculty and practitioners concerned with training school administrators, periodically has established standards for the profession. The group's recent annual conference provided the juried content for Marching Into a New Millennium: Challenges to Educational Leadership.

Edited by Patrick M. Jenlink, chair of educational leadership at Austin State University in Texas, the yearbook directs our attention to the future, a future that will be shaped by decisions we make in creating authentic preparation programs that will deal effectively with diversity and multiculturalism, social justice, democratic community, moral consciousness and scholarly practice.

The two score of essays suggest we must engage in a continued examination of professionalism and revisit the critical role of scholarship in administrator preparation and practice.

This ambitious volume speaks to the uncertainty and ambiguities that await professors and practitioners of educational leadership in 2001 and beyond.

(Marching Into a New Millennium: Challenges to Educational Leadership, by Patrick M. Jenlink, Scarecrow Press, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Md. 20706, 2000, 334 pp. with index, $69.50 hardcover)