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    Rick Ginsberg (Associate Professor)

  2. South Carolina Educational Policy Center, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC

    Barnett Berry (Associate Director)

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An earlier version of this paper was prepared for the Southeastern Educational Improvement Laboratory through the South Carolina Educational Policy Center.

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Ginsberg, R., Berry, B. The folklore of principal evaluation. J Pers Eval Educ 3, 205–230 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00131485

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