Education is at a crisis point, this author warns, and principals cannot afford to turn their heads away from what needs to be done: improving the quality of their school curricula. Having worked with J. Lloyd Trump in NASSP's Model Schools Project, he points out that the evidence shows administrators and teachers must work together to bring about meaningful change.
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