Argues that schools are paying low salaries for low-quality teachers when they would prefer high-quality teachers--as in the past when teaching was one of the few professions open to talented women. Higher salaries will attract high-quality teachers and thus improve education, but only if salary increase are tied to higher performance standards.…

Though exceptions undoubtedly exist, women with higher aptitudes can ordinarily be expected to be more effective classroom teachers than those with lower aptitudes. It is therefore troubling to think that in the United States those entering the teaching profession in recent years have, on average, lower measured aptitudes than their predecessors.…