Principals’ Strategies for Successfully Closing the Achievement Gaps in Their Schools

Principals’ Strategies for Successfully Closing the Achievement Gaps in Their Schools - "The present study examines the strategies that principals use to close the achievement gaps within their schools. Many current school-reform strategies and programs are developed by advocates of particular agendas rather than by school-based educators such as principals. Many principals, however, have experienced a great deal of success in their schools, yet often they are not listened to (Fullan, 2001, 2005). There are very few studies that focus on specific strategies or approaches that principals use in their schools to narrow the achievement gaps between their successful and less successful students. The present study, however, focuses on the importance of principals’ views and perceptions and examined the successful strategies they use to close the achievement gaps in their schools."