The Best Teachers in the World

John Chubb shows how we can raise student achievement to levels through a radically new strategy for raising teacher quality. He asserts that we must attract and retain much higher-calibre individuals in teaching by reducing the size and increasing the compensation of the teaching force via technology, abolishing licensing and training teachers in institutions and programmes that have demonstrated their efficacy in producing effective, and improving the quality of school leadership, on which teaching quality heavily depends.