Managing Education Talent Strategically

April 22, 2013

The education system has hired and tenured thousands of ineffective teachers and principals, particularly in high-poverty urban and rural schools. As a consequence, these schools have low levels of student learning. Allan Odden writes about talent management in education and explores why the focus on talent has quickly assumed a prominent role in the nation’s education-policy and practice agendas. See the report, ‘Getting the Best People into the Toughest Jobs.’ More information is available here.