Wishful Thinking?

A new report's recommendations for improving the teaching profession are encouraging but unrealistic.

Teachers may be heartened by a new report from the College Board’s Center for Innovative Thought that urges the nation to give them more respect, dramatically increased compensation, and better working conditions. Encouraging—but as an old friend used to say, “From their lips to God’s ears.” And that is undoubtedly what it will take for most of the...