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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The position or office of a principal.

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  • noun The condition, rank or office of a principal

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  • noun the post of principal

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Examples

  • At Slippery Rock, officials said the moratorium list includes: master of science in sport management, master of arts in English, principalship certification, master of education in physical education and master of science in nursing.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • The major problem I see with the principalship is the politics of the principalship today and the politics involved in the education of children.

    Oral History Interview with Johnny A. Freeman, December 27, 1990. Interview M-0011. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1990

  • Insist that all evaluation systems enhance the professionalism of teaching and the principalship.

    Kevin Welner: Letter to Arne Duncan Kevin Welner 2011

  • Insist that all evaluation systems enhance the professionalism of teaching and the principalship.

    Kevin Welner: Letter to Arne Duncan Kevin Welner 2011

  • It only takes someone who knows nothing or cares nothing about the learning needs of children to dream up this capitalist version of the principalship, where school leaders pore over endless test data most of the day looking for ways to manipulate meaningless numbers in order to project enough confidence in their bottom line to continue their bonuses and the iron-fisted control of the two-bit oligarchs who decide their futures.

    Bloomberg/Klein CEO Model Flunks Test Jim Horn 2009

  • Bloomberg and Klein, principalship, school CEOs comments:

    Bloomberg/Klein CEO Model Flunks Test Jim Horn 2009

  • In 1972, after an unusually long principalship that lasted eighteen years, she retired from Newnham and went to live in France for a year before returning to Cambridge in 1973 to work for the Cambridge City Council as a Labour Councillor.

    Ruth Louisa Cohen. 2009

  • It only takes someone who knows nothing or cares nothing about the learning needs of children to dream up this capitalist version of the principalship, where school leaders pore over endless test data most of the day looking for ways to manipulate meaningless numbers in order to project enough confidence in their bottom line to continue their bonuses and the iron-fisted control of the two-bit oligarchs who decide their futures.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • Her warmth and generosity were a great asset in promoting the kind of informal principalship which was a hallmark of her time at Newnham.

    Ruth Louisa Cohen. 2009

  • In 1916, Khatskels, having returned to Vilna from her studies in St. Petersburg, took up the principalship of a Yiddish middle school for girls.

    Helene Khatskels. 2009

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