Recruiting principals to lead low-performing schools: Effects on job attractiveness

Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 69-83

  Stark Price, Geneva A ^a   Muñoz, Marco A ^a   Winter, Paul A ^b   Petrosko, Joseph M ^b  

^a Human Resources Research Organization   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrator recruitment; Principal recruitment; School staffing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248392282     PISSN: 0920525X     EISSN: 15730425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11092-007-9035-6     Document Type: Article

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