Education Week covered the release of a report by the National Center on Education and the Economy recommending that ambitious changes to the American education system are needed to see real improvement. Hmmm...many of them remind me of Finland.
“I think we have been for a long time caught in a vicious cycle. We’ve been unwilling to do the things that have been needed to have a high-quality teaching force. We’ve been unwilling to pay teachers at the level of engineers. We’ve been solving our problems of teacher shortages by waiving the low very standards that we have. We have been frustrated by low student performance, and now, we’re blaming our teaching for that, which makes it even harder to get good people.” Marc S. Tucker, President, NCEE.
Here's a link to the Education Week article and the full NCEE report.
