How to Achieve the Talent Dividend

Posted by Carol Coletta on May 12, 2009

If you had $100 billion to fix our schools, what would you do? A surprisingly smart list of suggestions for the education portion of the federal stimulus money is circulating in the education policy world, and Jay Matthews has it in The Washington Post, graded and ready for your review.

You can Google the report, "Smart Options: Investing the Recovery Funds for Student Success," sponsored by the Eli and Edythe Broad and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations, but you'll miss Matthews' ratings and his additions.

Not on Matthews' list is my own rant:  Attract more qualfied people into teaching.  This will take more than money (although money is not insignificant.  It will also take a serious culture change in schools and liberal use of part-timers.