Pressure Mounts on Higher Ed. to Improve Principal Preparation

Education Week: Poor. Appalling. Inadequate.

It was a scathing assessment of how most of the nation's principals are prepared: in university-based programs too eager to admit candidates and too detached from the realities of the job.

And it's a critique that still holds true for some programs despite signs of progress, said Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, who rendered that harsh evaluation of university-based principal preparation in a 2005 report, Educating School Leaders.

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