A Think Twice Review of:

Gateways to the Principalship: State Power to Improve the Quality of School Leaders

Think Twice - Jan 10, 2012

Publisher/Think Tank - Center for American Progress

Author(s) -

This report from the Center on American Progress, proposes a range of state policies for improving principal effectiveness and student achievement. This report from the Center on American Progress, proposes a range of state policies for improving principal effectiveness and student achievement.

Reviewer(s) - Margaret Terry Orr, Bank Street College of Education

Orr's review of the report finds that it ignores existing research on the subject, lacks evidence for the approaches it advocates and sidesteps both state and professional policies that directly address the sorts of problems it purports to remedy.