The Politics of Accountability: Assessing Teacher Education in the United States

Educational Forum

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-27

  Cochran Smith, Marilyn ^a   Piazza, Peter ^a   Power, Christine ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Building Better Teachers; Our Future Our Teachers; teacher education policy; Teacher Performance Assessment; value added assessments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871603389     PISSN: 00131725     EISSN: 19388098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131725.2013.739015     Document Type: Article

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