Sir Michael Barber and Dr Mona Mourshed
This report aims to discover why the world’s top performing school systems perform so much better than other systems. Evidence from the top systems suggests three important factors to their success: getting the right people to become teachers; developing these teachers into effective instructors; and ensuring that the system is able to deliver the best possible education for every child.
The available evidence suggests that the main driver of the variation in student learning at school is the quality of teachers. It argues that making teaching a worthwhile career choice for talented people depends less on high salaries and more on small but critical policy changes, such as focusing on a strong process for teacher recruitment and training, paying a good training salary, and carefully managing the status of the teaching profession.
It concludes that the main factor in the quality of an education system lies in the quality of its teachers.
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