"Students are the ultimate beneficiaries of the professionalization of teaching. More government programs, more staff development, more grants, more school choice, and more standardized testing combined cannot equal the power of solid teaching. Pay is going to have to be increased, career ladders need to be established, means of evaluating teachers to hold them accountable need to be in place, teacher training needs to be retooled, and power needs to be handed over to those who do the work of educating-- the teacher."

From someone who spends every day in the front lines of the public education system -- a teacher -- comes an explosive new book on public education in America that focuses on treating good teachers like the experienced professionals they are and eliminating the incompetent ones.