Opinion: In Chicago, public schools are often called a mess. Truth is, they’ve improved — a lot. – Washington Post

"It’s a big, complicated story, but the short version is that positive change has come in large part because of a recognition that principals are the drivers of improvement. Schools are much more likely to get better when principals build respectful school cultures organized in ways that teachers can teach and children can learn...That insight might sound simple and obvious, but the implications are profound and lead us away from the kinds of program- and governance-based fixes the education field has often focused on."