Preparing highly qualified teacher candidates for urban schools: The importance of dispositions

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 147-160

  Talbert Johnson, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispositions; Teacher education; Teacher quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749859842     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124506293321     Document Type: Article

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