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| | Ordinary people have to extraordinary work to improve schools |
 | | Teachers, in other words, like people in other professions, become teachers for "right" and "wrong" reasons, and for reasons that are neither right nor wrong. |
 | | If teachers are ordinary people, and if that means that there are internal, human factors we have to take into account to determine how to spur their professional development, what other barriers must we recognize? |
 | | Last year, I was with a group of people visiting an Atlanta middle school, and during a conversation with a very good math teacher, a veteran of 23 years, we learned that she had never been to a national conference. |
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