Working Toward "Wow": A Vision for a New Teaching Profession
On July 29, in a speech to the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, Secretary Duncan said the U.S. should radically transform the way that teachers are recruited, assigned, evaluated, and compensated, in order to recognize and reward its great veteran teachers, attract top students into the field, and make the country more competitive. He called on teachers to rebuild their profession, to give themselves more autonomy in exchange for performance-based accountability. Read the text of his speech below.
