Teacher collaboration, professional communities improve many elementary school students' math scores

Many elementary students' math performance improves when their teachers collaborate, work in professional learning communities or do both, yet most students don't spend all of their elementary school years in these settings, a new study shows. The researchers used a sub-sample of 4,490 students, who attended public elementary schools between 1998 and 2003, from the US Department of Education's nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/uon...