Critical friends groups: The possibilities and limitations embedded in teacher professional communities aimed at instructional improvement and school reform

Teachers College Record

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 733-774

  Curry, Marnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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