The career path to the principalship has been a fairly rigid one. Only in the past decade or so has the field seen some important changes in who makes it to a school’s top job—and how.
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Source: Education Week
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A version of this article appeared in the January 25, 2017 edition of Education Week as Step Into the Principal’s Office