Power to the Principals



By Paul E. Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. 09/22/2011

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Paul Peterson and Chester Finn discuss Brian Jacob’s study examining what happened when some Chicago principals  were given the power to choose which teachers to keep and which to fire.

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