Opinion: Why Aren't Our Teachers the Best and the Brightest?

Why don't more of our smartest, most accomplished college graduates want to become teachers? Three of the top-performing school systems in the world -- those in Finland, Singapore and South Korea -- recruit 100 percent of their teachers from the top third of their high school and college students. They tap their best people for the job. Paul Kihn and Matt Miller, Washington Post, Oct. 10, 2010