Wanting the best -- Fewer teachers, better teachers -- Developing great teachers -- Great leaders, great teachers -- Getting the best
Summary
John Chubb shows how we can raise student achievement to levels comparable to those of the best nations in the world through a radically new strategy for raising teacher quality. He asserts that we must attract and retain much higher caliber individuals in teaching, which we can accomplish by reducing the size and increasing the compensation of the teaching force via technology, abolishing licensing and training teachers in institutions and programs that have demonstrated their efficacy in producing effective, and improving the quality of school leadership, on which teaching quality heavily depends
Notes
At head of title: The Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on K-12 Education
