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A Blueprint for Developing Tomorrow’s School Leaders 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 and cures of the crisis in school leadership. Marc Tucker, Judy Codding, and a stellar list of experts from the United States and abroad paint a revealing portrait of what it means to be a principal now, how and wh… More >>
The Principal Challenge: Leading and Managing Schools in an Era of Accountability
Tags: Accountability, Challenge, Leading, Managing, Principal, Schools
#1 by J. Bob on May 1, 2010 - 3:24 pm
This book is a mountain of theory with virtually no examples of practical application. The non-specific nature of this book makes it pretty much useless. Example: “To be effective leaders, principals must know about and have skills to address the tasks and roles of transformational and instructional leadership.” With no examples or specific information of exactly how they purpose one use that information. The entire book is made up of this kind of rhetoric that I doubt is useful to anybody except graduate school teachers who need books that sound intellectual.
Rating: 1 / 5