Currents Quote by Nicholas Lemann

Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to…

— Michael Bennet

“But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors:…

— Steven D. Levitt

Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.

— Sal Khan

Our teachers are good people and they work hard, but we are losing them to other states due to low pay.

— Jim Justice

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.

— Anonymous

With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined…

— Milton Friedman

“Accountability measures allow administrators to require the faculty to “teach to the test,” rather than devise the curriculum according to its own judgment. In…

— Benjamin Ginsberg

Good teachers have joined Presidency from different parts of the country and even abroad. We have got idealistic teachers, and we are relying on…

— Ashoke Sen

I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why I got…

— Jalen Rose

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our…

— Edmond H. Fischer

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single…

— David Puttnam