Leadership

Overlooking Poverty?: Aspiring school leaders usually don't know much about poverty, concludes a study, which pins the blame on faulty graduate programs.

Surveying 406 school leadership programs nationally, the authors of the paper found that only 3 percent devoted an entire course to poverty. Meanwhile, looking at three representative graduate programs, it found that most respondents held simplistic views about the roots and impact of poverty.

"They really don't know what it is, and what can be done about it," the study's co-author, Christine J. Villani, a professor at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, said of graduate students. "They think [poverty is] simply...