Secondly, draft two or three recommendations that might emerge in our final report related to teaching quality. If we leave tomorrow with a solid draft of these two products, we ll have made significant progress. I must also take a moment to thank some of our fellow Commission members who have worked closely with the staff to plan this meeting. I want to recognize Deborah Ball, Diane Briars, Alice Gill on behalf of Sandra Feldman, Anne Jolly, Maria Lopez-Freeman. Now a Commission member shared the following quote with me.
Teachers hold in their hands the malleable minds of the nation s children.
And a discouraging number of them are incompetents. It was in an article in Life magazine back in 1958. Now that s 41 years ago, obviously, coming up on close to be 42 years ago. And I think we probably can. This may be a good segue into something I ve been asked to talk about.