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, ...

KIPP, or the Knowledge Is Power Program, is known for its size—162 schools and 59,000 students nationally and growing—as well as its track record of getting solid test scores out of underprivileged ...

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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, ...

The article Kenya schools ill equipped in face of disasters in The Standard of November 7, 2010, that stressed the need for school principal training in disaster management puts a focus on all school ...

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 ...

Classes will soon be in session for principal wannabes in the Houston area. A $3 million grant from the Houston Endowment will allow up to 30 aspiring principals to get the hands-on training they need ...

Ellen Winstead needs to learn to keep a straight face as she delivers serious messages. Fighting off a nervous tendency to smile as she speaks is one of the countless lessons the 36-year-old principal ...

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 ...

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 ...