And the greatest danger of all, given that most education and health spending goes on pay, may be that much of the extra money provided as a result of the comprehensive spending review ends up in the wallets of the teaching and medical professions, without much in the way of service improvement to show for it.

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Participants also called for the need to establish a comprehensive basis for National Qualifications Frameworks to guide teacher training, evaluate experiential acquisitions for validation, and certifications that would result in ensuring a positive impact on career development for the teaching profession.

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All Americans pay an economic price for this lazy form of teaching because our students are not as ready for the world economy as a result.

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It seems very likely that allowing the principals to choose which teachers to lay off will most likely result in a better teaching staff than a layoff strategy based entirely on a criteria with no relation to performance.

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As a result, this only really works well for them if teaching kids through eBooks is cheaper than the dead trees.

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