UCLA professor Bill Ouchi argues in today's New York Post??for giving principals autonomy--a point about which we surely agree--based on his forthcoming research that, when given control, principals can get great results by manipulating the school variable that (he finds) matters most: "Total Student Loads," roughly described as "the number of students [teachers] must get to know each term."
Count Stafford??and Jay Mathews??as skeptical that, in teaching, quantity might matter more than quality.
