Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.