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Revision with unchanged content. The book "Enacting a Multi-Year Professional Development Initiative" tells the story of one district´s attempts to create a professional development program as spelled out in the literature on school reform and professional development for teachers. The descriptive case study outlines the history of the professional development initiative from inception to completion and demonstrates the benefits and weaknesses of long-term projects of this nature.

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The author is an Assistant Professor at Queensborough Community College of the City Universityof New York (CUNY). She teaches remedial reading and writing and has been an educator for 18 years. She holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.

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