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Article: The standards we need: a comparative analysis of performance standards shows us what is essential for principals to know and be able to do to improve achievement.
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- Leadership
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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The importance of school leadership is at the forefront of our nation's educational agenda. The effect of principal leadership on student achievement is now well established (Hallinger & Heck, 1996; Cotton, 2003; Leithwood & Riehl, 2003; Waters, Marzano, & McNulty, 2003; Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004).
Despite the strides that have been made in the educational leadership research, widespread concern exists about the current and future states of educational leadership; in particular, the principalship. Who will lead schools of the future? How can we retain current school leaders? How can we attract new leaders? How and by whom should ...