Frederick Hess, the Progressive Policy Institute
January 2003
The Progressive Policy Institute's 21st Century Schools Project (with financial assistance from the Broad Foundation) just released this thoughtful 24-page treatise by Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute. Its central contention: U.S. public schooling needs to look for leaders in many more places than it has traditionally done, including talented executives outside the education field; it needs to replace old ideas of licensure for school leaders; and it must recast their training, too. Some of this sort of thing is occurring through specialized programs such as "New Leaders for New Schools," to be sure, but Hess contends it should become the rule, not the exception. You'll find it at http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=110&subsecid=181&contentid=251239.
