But that would misuse teaching talent and student effort.
However canny Federer was, even Phil Jackson might admit that you can't teach talent.
Schools and universities have still to reform Soviet-era pedagogy and curriculums, and are often short of both capacity and teaching talent.
Dr. Hite said the development would also help Philadelphia identify itself as a city that is seeking teaching talent at a time when the district is closing schools and consolidating the student population in response to falling enrollment.
Moocs are viewed primarily as a way to showcase and share universities' best teaching talent, as well as encouraging interaction and soliciting feedback from students around the world, he says.
You know, we tell them, 'Work hard, play by the rules, you can rise as far as your talents can take you.' And yet Albany rules say that when it comes to teaching, talent doesn't matter, results don't matter".
He says that it is unnecessary and that adjustments would camouflage such institutional problems as the inequitable distribution of teaching talent.
Right now, the School District of Palm Beach County is already losing some of its best magnet teaching talent to DROP, and the trend is going to accelerate.
If anything, value-added evaluations would drive teaching talent out of high-poverty schools, and result in more bubble-in malpractice.
I have yet to hear a plausible scenario where Duncan's policies do not produce more mindless test prep and an exodus of teaching talent from the toughest schools.
