Improving a struggling school’s climate can be both the foundation of long-term school improvement and a source of immediate, visible progress for a new principal. The tricky part for many principals, ...

As principals come under more pressure than ever to improve underperforming schools, leadership experts say it’s time for the nation to emphasize recruiting and training the next generation of school ...

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District administrators say university principal programs need to improve A new five-year, $47 million initiative from the Wallace Foundation will help improve universities’ principal training, ...

When it comes to student success, policy experts pretty much agree that you can't get exceptional achievement without a stellar principal in charge. The trouble in Chicago is our best principals are ...

Assistant principals and principals are integral members of our schools, from kindergarten through 12th grade. Among their many roles, these educational leaders develop academic policies, liaise with ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s formula for fixing Chicago Public Schools has always put a priority on building better leaders, so it could have been a setback for the mayor’s agenda when a prominent education ...

Assemblymen Darrell Steinberg, D- Sacramento, introduced Friday AB 75, a bill to provide $15 million to train 5,000 principals and vice principals per year in school leadership skills. “The difference ...

Two civic leaders with links to a scandal-plagued training program for Chicago Public Schools principals in a public speech Monday pressed for a continued focus on school administrators. Heather ...

A new survey shows many of Kentucky's school principals have not been trained on a common assignment: how to enforce anti-bullying policies.Ninety percent of school administrators surveyed by a school ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s formula for fixing Chicago Public Schools has always put a priority on building better leaders, so it could have been a setback for the mayor’s agenda when a prominent education ...