Principal Pipeline
School & District Management
Laura Bush Unveils Bold Principal-Training Initiative
Former first lady Laura Bush announced an effort that aims to change the way America's principals are recruited and prepared.
Recruitment & Retention
More Funding for Principal Training Deemed Vital
Leadership groups are hoping the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act will include money for recruitment and training.
School & District Management
Principal Program in N.Y.C. Linked to Student Test Gains
Graduates of the Aspiring Principals Programs achieved better results over time than other new principals, a study concludes.
School & District Management
News in Brief
New Leaders Group to Train Charlotte, N.C., Principals
New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit organization that recruits and grooms principals to serve in high-poverty schools, will begin training leaders in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., district this summer.
School & District Management
Academy in N.Y.C. Prepares Principals for Toughest Jobs
The role of the New York City Leadership Academy—created by Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein to recruit, train, and support new principals for the city’s toughest schools—has never been more central.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
What Indicates Quality? What Demonstrates Accountability?
There's a whole lot of talk in education about accountability - generally coming from the top down and more broadly from the elite down. I'm all for accountability, but if and only if it runs both ways.
School & District Management
TFA Teams With Districts to Groom Aspiring Principals
Teach for America aims to have more than 800 alumni leading their own schools or districts by 2010, as part of a school leadership initiative launched last year.
School & District Management
States Get Tough on Programs to Prepare Principals
Impatient to prepare better-qualified school leaders, a growing number of states are giving their universities an ultimatum: Redesign your preservice programs, or get out of the business of training school administrators.
Professional Development
Principal-Interns’ Training Faulted
Experts agree that a critical part of any principal’s preservice training is field-based learning under the mentorship of a skilled school leader. And yet, early results from a recent survey of administrators who mentor would-be principals suggest that many of those experiences may be, to put it bluntly, pretty lame.
Education
Report Roundup
SREB Calls for Better Principal Preparation
State education agencies, policymakers, university leaders, and school district officials need to do a better job to improve training programs for principals, a report argues.
Education
Report Roundup
SREB Report Calls for Better Principal-Training Programs
State education agencies, policymakers, university leaders, and school district officials need to do a better job to improve training programs for principals, a report argues.
School & District Management
Report Roundup
Principal Preparation
The agency’s report describes six preparation programs that train prospective administrators largely through real-world experience rather than traditional university-based coursework.
School & District Management
Explainer
Leadership
There is wide recognition that school leaders exert a powerful, if indirect, influence on teaching quality and student learning.
Education
Nonprofit Group Aims To Groom New Breed of Leaders
A former Clinton administration official is trying to drum up $4 million to finance a nonprofit organization aimed at putting first-class principals in urban schools.