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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822126703321

Autore

Chubb John E

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2012

ISBN

0-8179-1566-4

0-8179-1564-8

0-8179-1568-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 630

Disciplina

371.1

Soggetti

Teacher effectiveness - United States

Teachers - Selection and appointment - United States

Teachers - Certification - United States

Teachers - Training of - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

At head of title: The Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on K-12 Education.

"Education next books."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.; Preface; Chapter 1; Wanting the Best; Chapter 2; Fewer Teachers, Better Teachers; Chapter 3; Developing Great Teachers; Chapter 4; Great Leaders, Great Teachers; Chapter 5; Getting the Best; Notes; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Forceon K-12 Education; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 de