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Peer reviewedDeLeonibus, Nancy; Thomson, Scott D. – NASSP Bulletin, 1979
Reasons principals give for leaving the principalship involve job conditions more than personal or community circumstances. Diminished authority contributes to the attrition rate. From a random survey of 4,766 secondary school principals, just under 10 percent (446) indicated they had decided to leave the principalship in 1979. (Author/LD)
Descriptors: Career Change, Individual Power, Job Satisfaction, Principals
Peer reviewedThomson, Scott D. – NASSP Bulletin, 1989
Examines the relationships between schooling and five areas of national life: economic factors, public law and regulations, home factors, social conditions, and media and popular culture. Compared with South Korea and West Germany, the U.S. "national report card" is mediocre. Increasing youth employment in the U.S. is one reason.…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment
