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Professional Capital is an incisive critique of the failing reform movements in many countries & a powerful manifesto for the only strategy that can & does work. Hargreaves & Fullan set out exactly & undeniably why the only way to move forward is to honor & improve the profession of teaching. This book should revolutionize how policy makers & practitioners alike think & act in education.
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