All right, I think this is probably the cream of the crop on the subject!
Life in the 1980s:
- http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1980s.html
- http://www.ushistory.org/us/59d.asp
- https://www.quora.com/What-was-America-like-in-the-1980s
- http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remembering-the-1980s-hold-on-was-it-really-like-that/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24pl7r/serious_what_was_daily_life_like_in_the_1980s/
- http://hubpages.com/education/What-Was-Life-Like-In-1985
School in the 1980s:
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/27-normal-things-every-39-80s-kid-did-1313664147980342.html?ref=gs
- http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kate-chapman/25-things-that-happened-at-school-in-the-80s_b_7746782.html
- https://www.quora.com/What-was-high-school-like-in-the-80s
- http://www.popsugar.com/moms/What-School-Like-1980s-42244572#photo-42244572
- http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_and_the_media/2015/09/a_1980s_documentary_about_high_school_is_out_of_storage.html
- http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1990/01/10/09200009.h09.html
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/2972895/computers/9-awesome-photos-of-school-computer-labs-from-the-1980s.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education_in_the_United_States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_series_about_school
Principals and teachers:
- https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/report/2014/07/01/93015/the-changing-role-of-the-principal/
- http://billcarozza.com/a-bit-of-change-since-the-1980s/
- https://consortium.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/publications/08PrincipalLeaders.pdf
- https://books.google.com/books?id=XKqNDnUIKv4C&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=principals+in+the+1980s&source=bl&ots=-1SsxePoqU&sig=ugubW_bDMkcbG4Osn2ZSCHupEYY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbspSP14DPAhUBcSYKHXz9AU44ChDoAQhRMAk#v=onepage&q=principals%20in%20the%201980s&f=false
- https://books.google.com/books?id=XKChBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=principals+in+the+1980s&source=bl&ots=EpHZ6enHsV&sig=kiV2YzB3YjByqPlS-APaYTXIKd4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbspSP14DPAhUBcSYKHXz9AU44ChDoAQg7MAY#v=onepage&q=principals%20in%20the%201980s&f=false
- https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_075.asp
- http://www.statista.com/statistics/185025/average-salary-of-teachers-in-public-schools-since-1980/
- https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/jun/22/learned-to-teach-child-headteacher-primary-schools
- http://www.biloxischools.net/cms/lib07/MS01910473/Centricity/Domain/94/1980s.pdf
I hope this helps!