U.S. Is Urged to Raise Teachers’ Status - nytimes

To improve its public schools, the United States should raise the status of the teaching profession by recruiting more qualified candidates, training them better and paying them more, according to a new report on comparative educational systems. - U.S. Is Urged to Raise Teachers’ Status
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