Principal Turnover: Upheaval and Uncertainty in Charter Schools?

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 409-437

  Ni, Yongmei ^a   Sun, Min ^b   Rorrer, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

charter school; discrete time competing risk models; longitudinal study; principal transition patterns; principal turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936851750     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X14539808     Document Type: Article

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