What if there were a way to replace old, non-excellent teachers with fresh new ones—and best of all, make sure that the new teachers remain freshly excellent? Great news reader! The problem that has long stifled our public schools, causing our students to lag and languish, has at last been solved. The solution comes to us via an opinion writer at the
Boston Globe who *gets* that if you let teachers hang around for too long their excellence depletes and they get stale.
The model may be changing. It could be that a lot of smart young people want to spend a few years teaching and then try something else. If they deliver strong results, is that necessarily bad that they only teach temporarily? —Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe
I have but one response to this idea: bravo, sir. Bravo! In fact, Mr. Lehigh’s bold and visionary solution is so bold
What if there were a way to replace old, non-excellent teachers with fresh new ones—and best of all, make sure that the new teachers remain freshly excellent? Great news reader! The problem that has long stifled our public schools, causing our students to lag and languish, has at last been solved. The solution comes to us via an opinion writer at the Boston Globe who *gets* that if you let teachers hang around for too long their excellence depletes and they get stale.