Mr Tarr said teaching should be rigorous and challenging, but it was "academic snobbery" to say you could only study history by taking lots of detailed notes.
Increase the prestige associated with teaching and make teaching programs competitive and rigorous.
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Classrooms and labs for K-12 and higher education should have modern, rock-solid technology, but it needs to be coupled with effective professional development, sound teaching strategies and a rigorous curriculum.
The set-aside would support programs that recruit talented candidates into the teaching profession and provide them with rigorous training to prepare them for high-need schools.
The Department for Education said Mr Gove was determined to make English teaching at primary schools "more rigorous" and was publishing the draft programme of study now for informal consultation.
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This allows both variance in modes and methods of teaching but also something close to a rigorous and comparable measurement method.
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Yet, at present, business schools largely fail in providing rigorous, evidence-based teaching.
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For all the difficulty of doing a rigorous evaluation in order to improve teaching performance across the board, I suspect it is a whole lot easier to identify the worst teachers in the school.
The private schools' body calls for the recruitment of student teachers to become a more rigorous process, with front-line teaching staff sitting on selection panels.
This rise in prestige has been mirrored by a revamp of undergraduate business programs, with the top ones increasingly resembling MBAs thanks to an emphasis on the rigorous study of economics, statistics and accounting and MBA-like teaching methods using case studies and team exercises.
Teaching at the Boston Arts Academy represents a team of educators committed to providing a rigorous arts and academic education for our urban students through a thoughtful and open process that we model all year for our kids.
Their rigorous measurement scheme has revealed that schools still need to do a lot better teaching aboriginal and immigrant children and ensuring that more students finish high school.
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Our reforms: tougher discipline, more rigorous exams, more freedom for headteachers, a more demanding curriculum and higher quality teaching, will drive up standards so our pupils have a first-class education that matches the best in the world.
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