Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.