City of Chicago Making Strides to Improve Teacher Quality

The city of Chicago has been making strides in it's attempt to recruit higher caliber teachers for the city's most disadvantaged schools. The results are modest at best, but showed that a better academically prepared teacher had a positive impact on student high school test scores. You have to applaud the city for attempting to close the academic gap between the disadvantaged schools and schools from better performing districts. There's probably not a way to measure the talent that's being lost in our schools simply because of environment and circumstances, which children can't control.