"Goldhaber and Hannaway provide a straightforward, yet provocative overview of the fundamental paradigm shifts that will be necessary for a high-achieving American teaching profession to become a reality. Creating a New Teaching Profession serves as a modern-day guidepost for anyone working on these important issues."
—Eli Broad, Founder, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
"This new volume by Goldhaber and Hannaway could not be more timely or important. They argue convincingly that nothing less than the continued economic preeminence of the nation rests on our ability to fix how we staff the classrooms of our public schools. Some of the authors will enrage you and others will inspire you, but only the clueless will fail to be motivated by what these scholars are pressing us to do: remake how we select, train, and reward our teachers."
—Michael Casserly, Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools
"We will build a first-class public education system only if we build first-class systems for recruiting, developing, and retaining exceptional talent at every level of the system. This volume is an invaluable resource to those wishing a clear and comprehensive discussion of innovative strategies we might employ in order to embrace this challenge."
—Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO, Teach For America
"With this book, Dan Goldhaber, Jane Hannaway, and the contributing authors encourage all of us to think differently about how we recruit, compensate, develop, and retain teachers. The ideas presented are thought provoking and timely, as those of us who care deeply about public education—and particularly the education of low income and minority students—are grappling with how to get talented teachers to the schools that need them the most. I recommend this book to superintendents, state policymakers, and anyone else who is looking for 'outside the box' thinking on human capital management in education."
—John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
"Teachers matter. That is the intuition of almost everyone who has been a student. An explosion of high-quality research in the last decade has taken us beyond intuition to quantify the degree to which teachers matter and to specify associations between characteristics of teachers, the conditions of their employment, and educational outcomes for students. The picture of current realities is not pretty and the implications for policy and practice are staggering. This is the book to read if you want to get up to speed on research on teacher quality and what it might mean for education reform."
—Grover "Russ" Whitehurst, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, The Brookings Institution
