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- noun Plural form of
principalship .
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Examples
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Some of them were delegated to assistant roles when they first did it with the understanding that as schools opened they would be elevated back to principalships.
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So I began to look for principalships in the area and applied for an assistant principal's position in Northampton and nothing came through.
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Four schools -- I have been in all portions of the state, I have been point blank declined for two principalships I feel on the basis of race -- they wanted Whites rather than Blacks for the school, either because the school was predominantly White or it was perceived as an ideal situation or the jobs that I have been offered have all been a challenge and a dog fight all the way.
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In my four principalships I have followed three Blacks and one White.
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Now with that said I would like to address the difference between minority and majority principalships.
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To these, others have been added, one by one, owing very largely to the great success of the movement and the growing appreciation of the value of professional preparation for occupants of such positions, until now they include city superintendencies, high school and grade principalships, subject supervisorships, high school, normal school, and college instructorships.
On the Firing Line in Education Adoniram Judson Ladd
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It was discovered, also, that, in spite of the efforts being put forth by the normal schools, the higher teaching positions -- superintendencies, high school principalships, etc. -- were going to men of collegiate attainment, even at the sacrifice of professional training which was then being recognized as very desirable.
On the Firing Line in Education Adoniram Judson Ladd
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Dakota, requiring completion of such work for superintendencies and high school principalships, and strongly recommending the same for all teaching positions in the high school.
On the Firing Line in Education Adoniram Judson Ladd
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"Higher position in the public school service" meant, in the main, in the early days, city superintendencies and high school principalships.
On the Firing Line in Education Adoniram Judson Ladd
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The salary and professional opportunities of the office are not sufficiently attractive to draw men from the better school positions; hence the great majority of county superintendents come from the village principalships, the grades of town schools, or even from the rural schools.
New Ideals in Rural Schools George Herbert Betts 1901
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