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Author Biography
Maria Teresa Tattois the Southwest Borderlands Professor of Comparative Education at the
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, and Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and
Innovation at Arizona State University. She is the principal investigator for the Teacher Education
and Development Study in Mathematics, and for the First Five Years of Mathematics Teaching
Study, both designed to explore the connections between pre-service preparation and what is
learned on the job during thefirst years of teaching. She is a former President of the Comparative
and International Education Society, and studies the effects of educational policy on school
systems.
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