Dr. Kathy Peca

Academic Background
Ed.D. in Education Administration
Northern Illinois University
M.A. in Special Education
Northeastern Illinois University
B.A. in Humanities, Major in English
Loyola University

Scholarly Interests
Leadership issues, especially in rural school districts, Assessment issues, especially the relationship between instruction and assessment and the use and misuse of assessment results in education, The political influences on education and hoe educators respond.

Selected Publications
Accepted for publication in October, 2005, "Cheat Sheet" on Test Score Interpretation for School Administrators. Principal Leadership.

Peca, K. (2003). Rural school administrators: Insider versus outsider approaches to challenges. Catalyst for Change, 33(1), pp. 16-19.

Peca, K. and Isham, M. (Fall, 2001). Educational platforms: Constructing conceptual frameworks. Action in Teacher Education, 23(3), pp. 16-19.

Peca, K. and Shaughnessy, M. (Autumn/Winter, 2000). An interview with Michael Apple. The School Field, XI(3/4), pp. 7-36.

Biography
Dr. Peca was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She began teaching as a high school English teacher and then moved to the area of special education in junior high school for two years. After teaching high school behaviorally disordered students for two years, she became a school administrator in a northern suburb of Chicago for twelve years. In 1988, Dr. Peca moved to New Mexico and began her current position teaching education administration at Eastern New Mexico University.