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Opinion: If we?re going to strengthen our schools, we need to strengthen their leadership
4 October 2017
A growing body of research shows the role that school leaders play at influencing student outcomes. After studying headmasters in India and abroad, Stanford University Professor Nick Bloom and his colleagues recently wrote that a one-point increase on their scoring of school management practices is associated with a 10 percent increase in student performance. McKinsey & Company’s global review cites that a school principal — just one person — accounts for 25 percent of the impact that schools have on student learning.
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‘Does Management Really Work?’, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, Harvard Business Review, November 2012 issue