Real Leaders, Real Schools
Subtitle: Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds
By: Gerald C. Leader with Amy F. Stern.
Contributors: Leader, Gerald C.; Stern, Amy F.
Publisher: Harvard Educational Pub Group; Harvard Education Press
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781891792960
Subjects: Educational change -- United States.; Public schools -- United States.; Educators -- United States
Description: Tells the stories of five urban public school principals who led their schools through profound and transformative changes. In each of these cases, their efforts resulted in dramatic improvements in student achievement—improvements that occurred within the current environment of high-stakes tests. From publisher description.