Barnett Berry: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools

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Barnett Berry is founder and president of the Center for Teaching Quality, based in North Carolina—a nonprofit that seeks to dramatically improve student achievement nationwide by conducting timely research, crafting intelligent policy, and cultivating teacher leadership. A former high school teacher, Berry founded CTQ in 1999. Teachers College Press has published Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools—Now and in the Future by Berry and a large set of teacher contributors.

What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools

Berry visited Carnegie in May 2011 for a Carnegie Chat where he talked about how to bring expert classroom know-how and fresh policy ideas to America’s school reform debate. Drawing from Teaching 2030, he identified trends that will shape the learning experience of the next iGeneration and proposed actions to guarantee that every student will have excellent teachers.