Training Your Own: The Impact of New York City’s Aspiring Principals Program on Student Achievement
Corcoran, Sean P.1 Schwartz, Amy Ellen1 Weinstein, Meryle1
Abstract: The New York City Leadership Academy represents a unique experiment by a large urban school district to train and develop its own school leaders. Its 14-month Aspiring Principals Program (APP) selects and prepares aspiring principals to lead low-performing schools. This study provides the first systematic evaluation of achievement in APP-staffed schools after 3 or more years. We examine differences between APP principals and those advancing through other routes, the extent to which APP graduates serve and remain in schools, and their relative performance in mathematics and English language arts. On balance, we find that APP principals performed about as well as other new principals. If anything, they narrowed the gap with comparison schools in English language arts but lagged behind in mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Key words: alternative certification；principal quality；school leadership
总结： 纽约市领导学院是一个独特的实验，一个大型城市学区，以培养和发展自己的学校领导。其14个月的拟任校长课程（APP）的选择和准备拟任校长带领表现不佳的学校。这项研究提供了实现后3年或以上的APP，学校工作人员的第一个系统的评价。
来源：Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis. Jun2012, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p232-253. 22p.