There is some evidence and analysis from notable scholars that educational leadership is in the early stages of historical change. First, there is a significant change from the bureaucratic pillars of schooling. Second, there is strong analysis that a shift in understanding of leadership is essential to the reorientation. At the same time, however, emerging scholarship holds that these changes will fail to take hold. This article lays out the theory and empirical knowledge revealing that change is indeed afoot. Our objective is to clearly lay out these two perspectives, with major attention given to the analysis of likely failure. Absent the failure narrative, it is believed that a robust shifting of our understanding on the topics of school organizations and educational leadership will not occur. Our early conclusion is that the train moving the profession to a post-bureaucratic era will likely derail. Even when there is some progress, regression to the known will hold the high ground.
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