%0 Journal Article
%T The Role of the School Principal in Educational Reform
%A Donal E. Mulcahy
%J International Journal of Educational Reform
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1056787919841497
%X The quality of educational leadership, and that of the school principal in particular, is an important factor in school reform. This essay addresses concerns that the teaching profession and, as a result, the prospect of school reform is under threat from forces that seek to transform the role of school principal to that of corporate executive. It does so by identifying and examining persistent themes in the work of the Fordham Institute and confronting them with arguments and research that challenges this view
%K teacher
%K principal
%K professionalism
%K reform
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1056787919841497