Research Article
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
SUSAN LYTLE
2
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

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