The organization I lead, the Network for Teacher Entrepreneurship (NFTE), was founded by Steve Mariotti on one basic principle: teaching young people living in poverty how to create wealth for themselves is the surest path to poverty alleviation.

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Failure is a teacher, and if left alone, can lead to success.

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Second, the higher standards for teachers would likely lead to at the very least a short-term teacher shortage and quite possibly a long-term teacher shortage.

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By law, student-teacher ratios can't exceed 10 to 1, lead teachers must have a bachelor's degree and an early-childhood certificate, and they must be paid on the same salary scale as K-12 teachers.

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Any such deal was a "sham, " he said, because it wouldn't allow a teacher to receive two straight years of ineffective ratings, which would lead to their firing under an expedited process.

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The workshop is expected to lead to a regional project that will mobilize a broad range of partners involved in teacher education.

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