Patterns and predictors of principal turnover
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Prior research offers little guidance about the factors that drive principal turnover, as well as how these factors vary depending on a school's characteristics or a principal's attributes, including their pathway out of their current position. Using statewide student- and staff-level data from California, I explore how the patterns and predictors of principal turnover vary depending on more granular measures of student, school, and principal characteristics. I find that California principals leave their schools at higher rates compared to the national average, with nearly one in four California principals leaving their school each year compared to one in five in the rest of the United States. Rural students and schools experience the highest rates of turnover in the state, especially rural schools with the highest concentrations of students from low-income families. In addition, I identify potential mechanisms that predict principal turnover, including teacher turnover and the implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula. The descriptive results from these analyses shed light on how future research might continue to identify the drivers of principal turnover so that policymakers can better support stable school leadership for America's children.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Podolsky, Anne Katherine |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | reardon, sean |
| Thesis advisor | reardon, sean |
| Thesis advisor | Darling-Hammond, Linda |
| Thesis advisor | pearman, francis |
| Degree committee member | Darling-Hammond, Linda |
| Degree committee member | pearman, francis |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Anne Podolsky. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sh273cz5082 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Anne Katherine Podolsky
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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