Professional development: A key to Kentucky's educational reform effort

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 969-987

  Borko, Hilda ^a   Elliott, Rebekah ^a   Uchiyama, Kay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Professional development; Standards based educational reform; Systemic reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036829388     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-051X(02)00054-9     Document Type: Article

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