CRESPAR Report #56: Local School Boards Under Review: Their Role and Effectiveness in Relation to Students' Academic Achievement

Abstract

This report provides a review of literature published in the past two decades on the role and effectiveness of school boards. Though school boards are but one component of school district leadership—the superintendent and other district administrators and staff constituting the other main components—school boards are the focus of this review because they have a distinct role and have been understudied.