Superintendent Staying Power
District Administration
McREL's research on superintendent effectiveness--specifically, that tenure positively effects student achievement--was referenced in this article in District Administration. The article profiles superintendents in the 10 largest school districts in the country and notes a recently released study by the Council of the Great City Schools which found the average tenure of urban superintendents has gone up in the past decade, from 2.3 to 3.6 years.
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