School administrators make hundreds of decisions each year that affect their schools' academic and ethical quality. This article presents 12 practical dilemmas involving evaluation, discipline, and community relations to test secondary principals' character and reveal the ethical quality of their leadership. (MLH)

Reform measures have had little effect on increasing high school students' academic performance. Instructional quality is largely determined by the attitude, competence, and talent of teachers and principals responsible for delivering classroom instruction. Contracts should be revised to increase teachers' starting salaries, enforce accountability…