Big Education Ape: The Educated Reporter: Get your teacher quality groove on, today.

The Educated Reporter: Get your teacher quality groove on, today.

Get your teacher quality groove on, today.

Turns out you can see today’s 3 p.m. event on teacher quality even if you aren’t in D.C. Register for the live webcast here. It’s Joel Klein, Randi Weingarten, David Monk, Andy Rotherham and me. We are dispensing with the whole prepared-remarks thing and going “Meet the Press” style, me being the press. Is there something you want me to ask? Put it in the comments below.

Promise and Pitfalls: Creating a World-Class Teaching Profession
Monday, April 19th, 2010
3:00p.m. - 4:30p.m/ Reception 4:30p.m.-5:30p.m.

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About the Event

The $4.3 billion "Race to the Top" federal funds provide an unprecedented opportunity to drive landmark teacher quality reforms across the country. The focus is right. Hard evidence confirms that teacher quality is the key to improving student achievement. The timing is none too soon. A Nation at Riskrang the clarion call about U.S. education 27 years ago this month. The U.S. has fallen behind many of its competitor nations in educational attainment and achievement. Can reforming the teaching profession lead the way to a world-class education for America’s students in the 21st century global economy?

The contributors to a new book edited by Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway, Creating a New Teaching Profession, argue the answer is YES, but it will require rethinking the processes that govern teaching talent from the ground up. In this book, notable scholars, including Eric Hanushek (Stanford University), Frederick Hess (American Enterprise Institute), Alan Blinder (Princeton University), and Jennifer King Rice (University of Maryland) draw on evidence, international practice, and private sector lessons to identify systemic factors that determine the quality of the U. S. teaching workforce and propose bold reforms to tackle this human capital challenge.

Chancellor of New York City Schools Joel Klein, AFT President Randi Weingarten, Dean of Penn State School of Education David Monk and Co-Founder and Partner of Bellwether Education Andrew J. Rotherham respond to the bold new approaches posed by the scholars and weigh in on the practical and political promise and pitfalls of these reforms.