Prologue -- Part I. America's Talent Challenge. Ch 1: The American Century ; Ch 2: A Nation at Risk ; Ch 3: Winning the Future ; Ch 4: Talent, You Say? -- Part II. Five Ways to Attract, Educate, and Deploy Talent. Ch 5: It's the Learning, Stupid ; Ch 6: Unleashing Private Sector Innovation ; Ch...

To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...