But drawing top-flight teachers will require more money than this budget allows.
But Mr. Reardon doesn't mention compelling research (for example, the work of the Education Trust) that shows that having a top-flight teacher year after year dramatically reduces the effect of social class on a child's achievement, while ineffective teaching can undermine educational success for any child.
"We have doctors, attorneys, jewelers, airline pilots, flight attendants, teachers — even a guy with his own church parish in Milwaukee," Nimmons said.
A more secure future from better pensions could help stop the flight of teachers into the public system, said the Rev. Kevin Hanbury, an associate dean of the school of education at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J.
Inside Syria, intensifying violence, large population displacement, the killing and flight of teachers and the destruction and mis-use of schools have all made learning more difficult for children.
Over the years, Penzey expressed his dismay at, among other things, urban white flight, low teacher pay, and the use of Native American iconography in sports.
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday painted a dire picture of federal government operations across the United States should automatic budget cuts hit on March 1: F.B.I. agents furloughed, criminals released, flights delayed, teachers and police officers laid off and parents frantic to find a place for children locked out of day care centers.
In other words, we are very grateful but we also know our experience isn't the norm and as the schools deteriorate, despite our mayor's concerted efforts to help them by encouraging flight with teacher mill charter schools and extending the school day, I feel we pulled the ladder up.
Our phones will soon be our identity carriers, alerting servers, teachers, flight attendants and sales associates who we are so they can provide a highly personalized experience, unlike ever before.
Actually, though anecdotal reports at the time warned of teacher flight, what the follow-up studies from California showed is that after rising temporarily in all schools, teacher migration rates fell dramatically to much lower levels than before, and most sharply in schools with large numbers of poor students.
Airports become high-security zones and airplanes became like schoolrooms with stern teachers -- flight attendants -- enforcing niggling little rules.
