More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …

More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …

school) rather than to other characteristics that are correlated with student quality (immigrant status, parental income …'s earnings or school hiring policies. …

performance-based promotions could be an important tool for raising school quality. …

scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from elementary to secondary school in terms of initial … twice as important as the elementary school cognitive test scores for initial track placement in secondary school. In …