The best teachers in the world : why we don't have them and how we could / John E. Chubb ; foreword by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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 reduci...

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Main Author: Chubb, John E. (Author)
Corporate Author: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Koret Task Force on K-12 Education
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2012.
Series:Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 630.
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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.
Item Description:At head of title: The Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on K-12 Education.
"Education next books."
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 167 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780817915681
0817915680
9780817915667
0817915664
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.