From some of the stories I have personally heard, however, the seemingly endless supply of new teachers will begin to run out: fewer young people are willing to endure sub-standard teaching conditions in inner-city schools and threats to find ways to raise their students' scores on meaningless, mind-numbing tests or lose their jobs.
The catch-22 with lesson observations is that they're formulated for several purposes – appraisal policy, peer-to-peer development and for monitoring sub-standards of teaching – using the Ofsted criteria.
The authors compared this teaching program to standard teaching methods that used textbooks, pictures and diagrams.
Schools allocated to control received standard teaching.
In Uganda, government inspectors said children were being taught in sub-standard facilities and unsanitary conditions.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, presenting education standards watchdog Ofsted's annual report, will say the lottery sentences some children to be taught in sub-standard schools while others get the right opportunities to do well.
But the way to raise standards isn't to consign the other four in 10 to sub-standard CSEs: it is to improve teaching and school leadership so that steadily more reach this standard.
Others, including graduates, eke a living from intermittent labouring jobs or teach in the unregistered, sub-standard "colleges" that have proliferated on the outskirts of the city.
The union said the new system was "very little better" than banding and it ensured half the schools in Wales would be classed as sub-standard even before a lesson had been taught.
Ofsted says the teaching of ICT in English schools is sub-standard and needs to be improved.
Each summer, Hextall received training at the hockey school at which his father taught, but the hockey programs in Pittsburgh and Atlanta were sub-standard, and meant that during his teenage years, he was behind many of his fellow players.
