The standard research encyclopedia for Education. A new edition is promised soon. Boyan, Norman J., ed. The publication of this work in 1988 was a landmark in the study of educational administration. The chapters cover all current research issues in educational administration, focusing particularly on the environment in which administrators work.
Separate chapters cover topics relating to minorities, women, educational finance, and other issues.
Murphy, Joseph and Louis, Karen Seashore, eds. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999. The second edition of this important work focuses very heavily on problems within the institutional structures of education, and, as such is more openly critical of K-12 education than the first handbook. There are roughly 20 chapters, representing some of the best research currently available, with extensive bibliographies. Firth, Gerald R. and Pajak, Edward F., eds.