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School Principals and School Performance

Damon Clark, Paco Martorell, and Jonah Rockoff

working paper 38 ? december 2009

School Principals and School Performance

Damon Clark University of Florida

Paco Martorell RAND

Jonah Rockoff Columbia Business School

Corresponding authors: Damon Clark, University of Florida, Email: damon.clark@cba.ufl.edu; Paco Martorell, RAND, Email: paco@; Jonah Rockoff, Columbia Business School, Email: jonah.rockoff@columbia.edu

The research presented here has benefited from suggestions and comments from members of the Cahn Fellows Program, the New York City Leadership Academy, and the New York City Department of Education. The authors are grateful to Laurel Wheeler and Julia Zhou who provided excellent research assistance, and for support from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), supported by Grant R305A060018 to the Urban Institute from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. CALDER working papers have not gone through final formal review and should be cited as working papers. They are intended to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before final publication. The Urban Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research and educational organization that examines the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or any of the funders and organizations. All errors are those of the authors.

CALDER, The Urban Institute 2100 M Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037 202-261-5739 ?

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Contents

Abstract Introduction Policy and Evidence

Principal Promotion and Retention Policies Evidence on Principal Characteristics and School Performance Identifying the Effects of Principal Characteristics Data Descriptive Statistics Results from Regression Analysis Additional Analyses of Prior Experience and the Aspiring Principals Program Discussion of Results Do Inexperienced Principals Hurt School Performance: A Natural Experiment Conclusion References Data Appendix Figures and Tables

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