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Welcome to the New Leaders Newsroom. Featured news articles with excerpts can be found below, along with article listings by year, and program related blog entries.
2008: Featured News
Stephen Sawchuk for Education Week [EPIC Screenshot]
October 8, 2008
The Effective Practice Incentive Community, or EPIC, a Web portal unveiled last week by the New York City-based principal-training organization New Leaders for New Schools, contains in-depth analyses of low-income schools that, like Noyes, are producing strong student-learning gains. The case studies consist of recorded testimony, video clips documenting instruction, and artifacts, such as lesson plans, culled straight from the schools.
The focus of their queries: To what did the school attribute its success? What had made Principal Wayne Ryan an effective leader?
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Lee Celano for Education Week
September 8, 2008
Hard to Resist - A little more than a year ago, Hardrick and Sanders weren’t even considering leaving their jobs
as principals in Memphis, Tenn., where both were trained by the New Leaders for New Schools program
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Tim J. Mueller, for USA TODAY
August 26, 2008
...Another group, New Leaders for New Schools, has paid for, recruited and trained 21 new principals at a cost of $100,000 each -- it's picking up the tab and anticipates that, in two years, it will have supplied half of New Orleans' principals
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August 2008
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26 August
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A Teachable Moment
New York Times - Magazine
When Tony Petite enrolled in elementary school in Denver in the fall of 2005, he quickly discovered that...
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July 2008
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14 July
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HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans After Katrina
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge Newslettern
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005...
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11 July
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Some DC Principals Credit Rhee for Big Gains in Test Scores
The Washington Post
Principals at some D.C. schools that demonstrated a dramatic increase on this year's student achievement...
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10 July
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Middle School Principal Targets Test Scores As Priority
Gazette.net Maryland Community News
Though he is a self-proclaimed "career changer," Omar Gobourne’s path seems to be pretty circular, with its start and end, thus far, in education...
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8 July
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How to Staff a School
Blog: Washington City Paper - City Desk
At least two dozen schools in the Milwaukee Public Schools system, including two large high schools where test scores have been at or below the MPS average...
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6 July
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Many Milwaukee Public Schools to Get New Principals
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
At least two dozen schools in the Milwaukee Public Schools system, including two large high schools where test scores have been at or below the MPS average...
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6 July
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New Promise for Public Service
International Herald Tribune
One American presidential candidate was shaped by his family's rich heritage in the U.S. Navy and the other...
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5 July
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Rhee Employs 'Army of Believers:' Stakes High for D.C. Schools Chief's 45 Handpicked Principals
The Washington Post
Rikki Hunt Taylor is filled with fire and educational jargon. When the Takoma Educational Center's new principal...
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1 July
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Borsuk's Interview with Jon Schnur [Podcast/Audio]
Milkwaukee Journal Sentinel
Journal Sentinel education reporter Alan Borsuk chats with Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools Jon Schnur.
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June 2008
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20 June
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The Role of Principals in Driving Student Achievement Gains [PDF]
The Alliance for Excellent Education and New Leaders for New Schools' Report Briefing and Panel Discussion
A special briefing and panel discussion of a recent New Leaders for New Schools report, Key Insights of the Urban Excellence Framework: Defining an Urban Principalship to Drive Dramatic Gains...
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May 2008
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22 May
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Oakland Students Enthusiastic About Tests
San Francisco Chronicle
Fifth-grader Ruth Preciado stood in a long line at recess with about 40 other students at Oakland's Monarch Academy...
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March 2008
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18 March
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New-Leaders Group Offers Initial Insight Into Effective Practice
Education Week
School leaders who are turning around low-performing schools use three distinctly different leadership strategies for early, middle, and late-stage improvement...
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9 March
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How Many Billionaires Does it Take to Fix a School System?
The New York Times
For as long as wealthy Americans have given their money away, education has been a leading recipient of their largess...
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February 2008
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15 February
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Excellence in a New York Hispanic School
El Diario
Directing the Dual Language Middle School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan posed a serious challenge to Claudia Aguirre...
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February
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Announcing the 2008 Cahn Fellow Principals
Cahnfellows.org
The Cahn Fellows Program for Distinguished New York City Principals at Teachers College, Columbia University celebrates the 2008 cohort of exemplary leaders…
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8 February
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Helping Students Climb Same Steep Path
NY Daily News
The Brooklyn Latin School's academic requirements sound like more like college requirements than those you would expect at a two-year-old New York City public school…
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2006
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November 2006
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26 November
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Project to Seek High-Poverty Schools' Best Practices
Education Week
Jon Schnur favors rewarding educators in carefully thought-out ways for significantly increasing their students’ performance...
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15 November
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School Leaders Program Succeeds
The Baltimore Sun
In February 2005, a national nonprofit called New Leaders for New Schools set up shop in Baltimore
and pledged to train 40 new principals in three years...
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10 November
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How to Give Away a Million Dollars
Slate Magazine
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Slate 60, the magazine's annual listing of the 60 largest American donors to charity...
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October 2006
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13 October
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Program for New Principals Gets Rolling
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A highly touted national non-profit organization aiming to build a wave of top-notch principals for urban public schools...
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September 2006
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18 February
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Principal Programs 'Unique'
Catalyst Chicago
Three training programs for aspiring CPS principals have earned reputations and resources that put them ahead of the rest...
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2004
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December 2004
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17 December
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