The Principal Challenge
Leading and Managing Schools in an Era of Accountability
Number of Pages: 448
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Based on two years of research supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Broad Foundation, and the New Schools Venture Fund, The Principal Challenge focuses directly on the causes of and cures for the crisis in school leadership. Marc Tucker, Judy Codding, and a stellar list of other experts from the United States and abroad paint a revealing portrait of:
- What it means to be a principal now
- How and why most graduate schools of education have failed to provide the training principals need
- What the military and business sectors do to create and support their leaders and managers
- What the state of the art in professional training looks like
- What other nations are doing to address this problem
- How to apply the very best practices in the world to solve the crisis in school leadership
The research conducted for The Principal Challenge was the beginning of the research and development that created NISL's Executive Development Program.