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Pascopella, Angela – District Administration, 2011
A district is as stable and grounded as its superintendent, according to some leaders and education experts. And given findings in a recent report from the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS), which specifically states that the average tenure of urban superintendents increased from 2.3 years in 1999 to 3.6 years in 2010, an increase of 56…
Descriptors: School Districts, Superintendents, Job Security, Politics of Education
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Piquero, Alex R.; Brame, Robert; Lynam, Donald – Crime & Delinquency, 2004
Much of the research on criminal careers has concentrated on the dimensions of prevalence, frequency, specialization, and desistance. One dimension that has not been the focus of research is career length. Knowledge on the distribution of--and correlates associated with--career length is important for matters related to theory and policy. Using…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Criminals, Racial Differences, Incidence
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Marston, Susan H.; Brunetti, Gerald J.; Courtney, Victoria B. – Education, 2005
How similar to and different from each other are public elementary and high school teachers with respect to selected issues and values that define their practice? The present study attempted to shed light on this question by examining the motivations of three groups of teachers, two elementary and one high school, for remaining in teaching. The…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, High Schools, Teacher Surveys, Secondary School Teachers