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Surveys Show That Many Talented And Committed Young People Are Reluctant To Enter Teaching For The Long Haul Because They Think The Profession Is Low-paying And Not Prestigious Enough.

To Be Clear, We The Department Of Education Want Curriculum To Be Driven By The Local Level. We Are By Law Prohibited From Directing Curriculum. We Don't Have A Curriculum Department.

To Encourage More Top-caliber Students To Choose Teaching, Teachers Should Be Paid A Lot More, With Starting Salaries More In The Range Of $60,000 And Potential Earnings Of As Much As $150,000.

About Two-thirds Of Bachelor's Degree Holders Borrow To Go To School, And On Average They're Graduating With More Than $26,000 In Debt.

The Only Way We Get Better Is To Look In The Mirror, Assess Our Strengths And Weaknesses, And Figure Out Where We Need To Go. But If We Run Around Saying, We're Number One, We're Number One, And We're Not, That Doesn't Help Us Get Where We Need To Go.