Educators have been urged down one path, and then another. Strong principals are the essential prerequisite of effective schools. The principalship should be abolished in favor of schools led by faculty committees.
Schools exist to instill and develop essential core values in students.
Teachers must be empowered if schools are to become more effective. Teacher unions with too much power represent the single biggest obstacle to meaningful school improvement. Practitioners have been bombarded with conflicting images, ideas, and alternatives for improving schools. One of their greatest challenges is sifting through this cacophony of mixed signals to identify a strategy that offers the potential to transform a school and energize a faculty. Recently, however, researchers seem to be arriving at a remarkably similar conclusion about which path offers the best hope for significant school improvement.