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Troubling Images of Teaching in No Child Left Behind

MARILYN COCHRAN-SMITH and SUSAN LYTLE
Harvard Educational Review December 2006, 76 (4) 668-697; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.76.4.56v8881368215714
MARILYN COCHRAN-SMITH
1 Boston College, Lynch School of Education
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2 University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
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