Plans for the new centre now include a six-lane swimming pool, a teaching pool, a gym, a dance studio, changing rooms, a creche and a cafe.

BBC: Scrapped Banstead swimming pool plan could go ahead

What we need, instead, are mechanisms for getting marginally better performance, year after year, from a teaching pool that remains merely adequate.

FORBES: Getting Rid of Bad Teachers

Perhaps rather than taking every element of the report into account, focusing on teacher pay could be a good leaping off point for future reforms, laying the groundwork for more exclusive top-tier education programs and other stepping stones to a more professional teaching labor pool.

FORBES: NCEE Report Focuses on Teachers as Professionals, New Pay Schemes