I have seen good superintendents who do not put a priority on communications forced from their jobs while less deserving superintendents who are better at the art of communications keep theirs. (nspra.org)
In 2002, Paul Houston, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, said, «Five years ago, the pool of good superintendents was fairly shallow, and I thought it was as bad as it could get. (educationnext.org)
The fascination with «leadership» that can be readily transferred from one field to the next has sometimes been shockingly simplistic, as with the presumption that military generals would make good superintendents because they run taut organizations or that attorneys would because they're familiar with law and politics. (educationnext.org)