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(January 2008) For school principals under pressure to improve instruction, time is often the scarcest commodity. This article shows how a new position, the School Administration Manager, is being tested with Wallace support in nine states as a promising new way to free principals to concentrate much more time on teaching and learning.
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(December 2007) Comments by Linda Darling-Hammond, Kati Haycock, Richard Colvin and Wallace President M. Christine DeVita on the critical importance of school leadership, and how states and districts are improving it, are featured in this special report on the Foundation’s recent national education conference.
(November 2007) For principals to meet tough state mandates, the right data in useful form is a must to improve instruction and chart student progress. This article vividly describes how New Mexico is taking steps to supply more useful information to its school and district leaders.
(October 2007) What do principals need to know and be able to do to turn around failing schools? How do we find such leaders and then sustain and support them? For answers, Public Agenda interviewed principals in high needs schools as well as superintendents who work with them. A new report offers insights from those conversations
(October 2007) Are states doing enough to ensure that all schools have “learning-centered” leaders who put curriculum and instruction first? A new report card by the Southern Regional Education Board concludes progress remains too slow.
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“The national conversation has shifted from ‘whether’ leadership really matters or is worth the investment, to ‘how…’”
--Education Leadership: A Bridge to School Reform