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Real Leaders, Real Schools: Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds.(Brief article)(Book review)
Real Leaders, Real Schools: Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds. Gerald C. Leader with Amy F. Stern (Harvard Education Press).
The great frustration of books about heroic principals "succeeding against enormous odds," five of whom are vividly and admiringly profiled here, is that the U.S. has constructed a public education system in which a strong school leader with a successful school is the exception rather than the rule. There's no shortage of such books and every reason to welcome another one in this genre (penned by an emeritus Boston University professor fittingly named Leader, who runs his own Leadership Institute). But there's a woeful shortage of such principals and schools. The subjects of this volume are five former principals in the Boston Public Schools over the past two ...
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