Provided here are case studies of assistant principals as they become socially oriented to their positions. The writers used a field-study approach to identify 20 subjects from 11 school districts in three states to examine the assistant principal posi tion and career mobility. All names of informants, schools, and districts have been changed to protect anonymity.
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