Judy B. Codding Large Small (The New Role of the Principal in the Era of Accountability) Judy Codding is Vice President for Programs and Chief Operating Officer for the National Center  on  Education and the Economy (NCEE).  Among the programs for which she is responsible are the America's Choice School Design Network (500 schools), New Standards (developing student performance standards and matching examinations for national use), the America's Choice Curriculum (standards-based, internationally benchmarked instructional materials), and the America's Choice Leadership Program, for school principals and district central office staff.  Dr. Codding has co-directed with Marc Tucker the Carnegie Study of the American High School Principal, charged by the foundation with developing a radically new approach to the training of school principals in the United States. Before assuming her present position, Dr. Codding was the award-winning principal of Pasadena High School in Los Angles, a large urban comprehensive high school serving predominately low-income African American and Latino students.  Previously, Dr. Codding had been a teacher and principal of Bronxville High School and Scarsdale High School in New York, suburban public high schools serving mainly high-income Anglo students.  Dr. Codding was a charter principal of the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national high school reform effort.  She was an Associate in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  She served as an education consultant to the Ministry of Education in the People's Republic of China and the U.S. Department of Defense schools.  She served as a commissioner on the California Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content and Performance Standards.  Dr. Codding is co-author with Marc Tucker of Standards for Our Schools:  How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them, 1998,  with David Marsh of The New American High School, 1999, and with Marc Tucker of The Principal Challenge, 2002.