I don’t mean romantic teachers. I mean teachers who feel their teaching, those who love teaching. Nevermind all the other education issues, without teachers who care about and love their work we won’t get anywhere with our education system.

Ann Bernstein from the Centre for Development and Enterprise wrote yesterday that teacher quality is the most important lever for improving pupil outcomes. CDE attended a workshop in Washington which examined international experience of educational reform. McKinsey’s review of the best performing reformed school systems shows, wrote Bernstein, that the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers.

I don’t quite know how our state will convince good young men and women out there to become teachers of our children. Treat them well. Train them. Keep them. Seduce them with lots of money. We need to do whatever it takes to train, employ and keep excellent teachers.

Ann Bernstein wrote the piece for the Star yesterday which I can’t find online. Sorry.

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