"Teachers' Staff Training Deemed Fragmented" (EdWeek, 02/05/09)

Although American teachers spend more working hours in classrooms than do instructors in some of the top-performing European and Asian countries, U.S. students have scored in the middle of the pack on a number of prominent international exams in recent years. That paradox appears to stem at least in part from a failing of the United States’ systems for supporting professional learning, concludes a new report.