Pivotal points: History, development, and promise of the principalship

The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice, First Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 109-141

  Brown, Kathleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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