Jean Madsen is a professor at Texas A&M University where she is director of qualitative research for the Education Leadership Research Center (ELRC). She has worked on several qualitative projects that include the study of private schools and desegregated schools. Her research interests include studying workplace relationships and its effect on organizational outcomes. Dr. Madsen has over 30 peer refereed articles and 100 presentations at the American Educational Research Association and the University Council of Education Administration. Her articles were accepted in American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Comparative Education Review, Peabody Journal of Education, and Urban Education. She has written three books, with one being nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Education. Jean also serves on many editorial boards and has been an invited reviewer for American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and Educational Researcher (2005)