Letters

To the Editor:

I am writing in the hope of connecting the dots between two articles in your April 17, 2002, issue: the front-page story about new demands on principals ( "Principals: So Much to Do, So Little Time" ) and the back-page Commentary on linking schools and community resources ( "Community Schools" ).

A plausible solution to the challenges summarized so poignantly by the six experienced principals in your news article, that of trying to fulfill a role "whose job description now has no bounds," might well reside in the ideas advanced by Ira Harkavy and Martin Blank in their astute...