The national meeting will include exceptional students from around the country who have shown great promise as future leaders in athletic training.
In countries with the most advanced systems like Finland, Canada, Australia, Japan and our neighbour in the south, they attract the best people for the job because they have made teaching a profession of high-level knowledge workers, and that – not higher salaries – is what makes teaching so attractive.
In order to walk the path of world-class education, we really ought to look into uplifting and strengthening the teaching profession into a respectable one. We need to take better care of the nation’s most important builders. The future of this country depends on the seeds that the teachers sow today.
The Education Department money will add on to HHS’s roughly $12 billion for Head Start and child-care funding, and it will give the two agencies the ability to set universal standards for early learning centers, moving away from the state-based “patchwork” of programs currently in place.
Given the scarce resources, did the Education Department make the right choice in focusing on early learning? Did grades 3-12 get the short shrift? What can states do to boost their enrollment in early learning among disadvantaged kids? How can child-care centers and pre-K programs improve such that the kids are ready for kindergarten? Are there adequate measurements to assess how early learning programs are performing?
