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...some very healthy signs that concern for schools and school improvement is becoming part of the fabric around here," says Senior Lecturer Roland S. Barth. Barth directed a 1979 study of the Ed School which criticized the school for cutting its teacher certification program in 1973 as well as its programs for certifying principals and superintendents...
...Principals' Center came about as a key recommendation of Barth's report, but members emphasize that although the Ed School founded and houses the program, it is run for the most part by the principals themselves...
Five years ago, the Barth report found that in the '50s, the Ed School succeeded in the dual mission of "training teachers, guidance counselors, principals and superintendents and, at the same time, in promoting distinguished research...
...Barth says he attributed the decline during the '70s in concern with schooling to "pessimism about how much schools could accomplish. Studies were coming out that emphasized other factors as being crucial to a child's intellectual growth--particularly his background--race, class, homelife, and parents...
...School faculty voted to accept the Barth report's recommendation that the school get back to close involvement with "educational practice and practitioners...