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Should principals be trained like MBAs?
Teachers may be having a rough time lately, but it can’t be easy to be a principal in tough economic times either. With looming budget cuts and layoffs, school principals are having to make difficult...
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Building castles in the air: Visionary leadership
It’s hard to read Henry David Thoreau these days — almost 150 years after his death — and not think, “How quaint! How clichéd!” It’s equally hard to remember that Thoreau’s insights weren’t considered...
View ArticleOf bosses, both good and bad
“All good bosses are alike; each bad boss is bad in his own way.” Tolstoy this isn’t. Nonetheless, it serves reasonably well as a distillation of recent research on leadership. Good bosses tend to do a...
View ArticleReport details principals’ impact on student achievement
Teacher effectiveness. The term has become a buzzword for policymakers, researchers and educators alike as they talk about the pressing need to improve our nation’s worst schools. But the rarely...
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