Last week, New Leaders for New Schools introduced its first corps of urban principals, highly-qualified individuals without standard principal credentials who have been given special training and served apprenticeships under master principals before taking the reins of their own schools. Solving the principal shortage will require districts to embrace innovative strategies like this. To learn more about this program-a "Teach for America" for principals-see "How to Fix the Coming Principal Shortage," by Andrew Goldstein, Time.com, July 30, 2001 at http://www.time.com/time/education/article/0,8599,168379,00.html .
