Kent Peterson

Kent Peterson, professor of educational administration, University of Wisconsin at Madison, discusses the challenges in demonstrating a strong commitment to providing high-quality learning. Excerpted from a presentation at the Urban School Leadership Mini-Conference for NCREL's Academy for Urban School Leaders (July 1993).

"Principals work unfortunately because of decentralization has taken more time away from instruction. The challenge is to find the way to still spend enough time on instruction that it communicates that it's important, and especially working with those and paying attention to those groups that are working together."

This Critical Issue summary was researched and written by Kent Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Date posted: 1995