Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals
Outcomes like those posted by SEM are the exact kind of results officials from the Wallace Foundation say they are hoping to reproduce nationwide through a $47 million partnership launched this summer between the Foundation and 24 colleges and universities throughout the country to develop new training modules for secondary school principals.
Officials with the foundation say that the five-year program will support dramatic changes to the way principals are trained, specifically in creating partnerships with local colleges and universities to redesign teacher training, to revitalize education management degree programs to better reflect real-world administrative duties, and to more effectively lobby lawmakers for sustained or increasing support of secondary education...