Abstract
It is argued that the national advancement of standards in the U.S. for educational leadership is part of the continuing movement towards standardization begun by Frederick Taylor in the last century as a drive to enhance profits in industry. The acceleration of the corporatization of public education pushed aggressively by the private sector in concert with right wing think tanks and foundations, is premised on the idea that the standardization of leadership preparation requires standardization of schools and of the larger society in which they are located. Thus, privatization amounts to an anti-democratic and anti-change agenda being advanced for the public schools. (DIPF/Orig.).
