At a time when the nation must have
citizens who have achieved educational success beyond high school, the need
for improved transitions from high school to college is urgent. States need to make sure that
what students are asked to know and do in high school is connected to
postsecondary expectations.
-- Finance. States need to connect their accountability systems for
K -12 and postsecondary education. Finney, vice president of the National Center;
Michael W.

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Fifteen percent of the course weeks addressed the topic of
personnel management in some fashion, but barely 3 percent of total
instruction addressed hiring, identifying, and rewarding good
employees or identifying and removing ineffective ones. history.
The need to improve the transition from high school to college is crucial
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Surprisingly, in this era of "scientifically based research," just
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"Education leadership lies at the intersection of two vibrant and
powerful bodies of learning and thought -- education and management,"
American Enterprise Institute's Frederick M. Reviewing more
than 200 course syllabi that covered almost 2,500 total course weeks,
the researchers found a critical lack of emphasis on results-oriented
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principals to lead improvement in the era of No Child Left Behind.
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Phone: 212-967-0095 ext. State need-based financial aid policy should be linked with
student preparation for college and state budgeting policy should
support collaboration between schools and colleges . While most young people say they want to attend college, out
of 100 ninth graders, 40 will immediately enter college after graduating from
high school, but only 18 will complete an associate's degree in three years or
a bachelor's degree in six years.
However, the report says remediation rates are disturbingly high --
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Out of 100 ninth graders who graduate from high school and immediately enter
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In addition to its recommendations, The Governance Divide provides an
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New York, and Oregon.
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"The Accidental Principal" can be read in its entirety in the
summer (May 2005 ) issue of Education Next online at
www.
Kelly is an education policy researcher at AEI.
Copies of The Governance Divide will be available at "State Policy
Dimensions for K-16 Reform," on September 12 at the Wingspread Conference
Center in Racine, Wisconsin. Institute for Educational Leadership and
Policy, the Institute for Educational Leadership, The Johnson Foundation, and
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Hess and Kelly's research showed that only 16 percent of the
course weeks were devoted to management focused on results. The report is based on findings from Partnerships for
Student Success (PSS), a project that analyzed K-16 educational governance and
policies in the four states, focusing on organizational structures,
leadership, finance, curriculum and assessment , accountability, and data
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A new study published in the summer issue of Hoover Institution 's
Education Next finds little evidence that principal-preparation
programs are introducing students to a broad range of management,
organizational, or administrative theory and practice. Notably
missing were books from leading thinkers in the broader world of
public or private sector management; well represented were the
writings of professors of education administration.
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The report identifies four areas in which states can work to improve the
transition from high school to college:
-- Alignment of Courses and Assessments .
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State Policies Undermine Public School Reform

These are among the findings of The Governance Divide: A Report on a Four-
State Study on Improving College Readiness and Success, released jointly today
by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, the Stanford
Institute for Higher Education Research, and the Institute for Educational
Leadership.

Andrea Venezia, senior policy analyst at the National Center and co-author
of the report states, "This study outlines concrete policy changes states can
put into place, and stresses the importance of both systems working together . Kirst, professor of Education at Stanford University; and Michael
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K-12 and postsecondary education policymaking currently exist in separate
worlds and each system's policies are typically formed independently of each
other -- even though most high school graduates eventually progress from one
system to the other. As a result, students rarely know how to prepare for
college despite having higher educational aspirations than at any other time
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Education Next is a scholarly journal published by the Hoover
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reform.
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The lack of attention to serious thinking on management or to
topics like research, accountability, or termination suggests an
emphasis on preparing candidates for the traditional pinched world of
leadership, Hess and study coauthor Andrew P.educationnext., States are pushing colleges,
universities, and K-12 schools to work together, but many state policies work
at odds with the reforms needed to improve students' college readiness and
success, according to a new study. Many students enter college
unable to perform college-level work. Usdan, senior fellow at the Institute for Educational Leadership .
The contents of the report are solely the responsibility of the National
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Hess is director of education policy studies and a
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from high school under one set of standards and face a disconnected and
different set of expectations in college.
-- Accountability.
The report was a collaborative effort by several authors: Andrea Venezia,
senior policy analyst at the National Center; Patrick M.

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In the required readings, aspiring principals were exposed to only
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We believe it will help states take that next step and change the policies
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"Principals need to be given the kind of
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"Yet these programs are leaving some of the most
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Hess and Kelly analyzed what is being taught in a stratified
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"We must make sure our education systems
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