James H. Lytle

Abstract：Research shows that the school improvement remedies promoted by policy makers and reformers often are in stark contrast to what actually has been proven to work in schools. A consensus is emerging about how school leaders affect school performance and the importance of strong principals to improved student learning. In spite of the strength and consistency of research in this area, however, policy makers and reformers continue to disregard the clear messages about what comprises good school leadership. National reform policies, for example, incorporate assumptions about school and district leadership that are very much at odds with the research. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race to the Top (RttT) call for market-based strategies — choice, charters, merit incentives, etc. — to drive improvement. These approaches might be characterized as corporate-style leadership, but there’s little precedence for this approach in educational leadership and little evidence that it produces results different from more traditional approaches to schooling.

总结：关于如何领导学校影响学校的表现和重要性的共识正在形成。政策制定者和改革者却继续无视明确的消息，即良好的学校领导的营造。如今国家改革政策，例如，不让一个孩子掉队（NCLB）和力争上游 （RTTT）要求以市场为基础的策略选择。这些方法可以被表征为企业式的领导，但几乎没有优先在教育领导这一做法。学校改善补救措施被政策制定者和改革者促进的程度往往是与在学校中实际发生的形成了鲜明的对。

来源：kappanmagazine.org