Historically, American Catholic education runs parallel to American public education and in tandem with the history of the American Catholic Church (Buetow, 1970; Elias, 2002; Walch, 2003). Two recent national events challenge the recruitment, formation, and retention of leadership for American Catholic schools. First, the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) (2002), a landmark piece of federal educational legislation, affects local schools in unprecedented ways. The second event challenging the leadership discussion for Catholic schools is the “leadership crisis” within the American Catholic Church (Weigel, 2002).
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Schuttloffel, M. (2007). Contemporary Challenges to the Recruitment, Formation, and Retention of Catholic School Leadership in the USA. In: Grace, G., O’Keefe, J. (eds) International Handbook of Catholic Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5776-2_5
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