Educational leadership matters greatly, but high-caliber principals are not the norm, and truly visionary leaders are rare. Today, many states and districts are only beginning to consider the ramifications of policies and practices that have left a majority of educational leaders unprepared to deal with the enormous pressures that come with standards-based reform. And in this era of the No Child Left Behind Act, the stakes are even higher—especially as recent studies have confirmed that the quality of the principal is a primary factor in distinguishing those schools that succeed in helping disadvantaged students achieve to high standards.

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Ensuring High-Quality Leaders for All Schools