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Full Cost of Professional Development Hidden

by Stephen Sawchuk
Education Week, November 10 2010

Cost. That would seem to be the most fundamental aspect of crafting a professional-development program. But as a number of researchers have discovered, school districts rarely have a good fix on how much they actually spend on such training—or on what that spending buys in the way of teacher or student learning…

 

Photo: Chip Dizard, Baltimore City Public School System