Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Thoughts on..... What Washington Can Learn From The World Of Sports

What Washington can Learn From The World Of Sport is a book by George Allen. Great insight on sports and politics.

The NFl last-shall-be first and first-shall-be-last draft tradition gives every the worst team pick at the best player giving an even distribution that fosters competition. This same concept should be used with teachers pay to students progress in the classroom. Encouraging good teachers to work at underperforming schools. He goes on to say that since the playing field for teachers earnings is all on equal ground that no teacher wants to go from working with suburb honor role students to intercity trouble kids but if salary wasn't on equal ground and teachers that turned poor performing or "bad" schools into good ones received more money for higher performance in their students. He refers this to coaches like Larry Brown that turned horrible teams into championship game winning teams. He thinks that some teachers have this ability and should get rewarded for it. Eventually this can help students overcome their tough backgrounds since more and more good

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