The issue of getting good teachers in the classroom and re-organizing curriculum around creativity and "non-test-centric" priorities are very much one in the sa

The issue of getting good teachers in the classroom and re-organizing curriculum around creativity and "non-test-centric" priorities are very much one in the same. See http://blog.mrmeyer.com/ http://blog.mrmeyer.com/ or http://coxmath.blogspot.com/ http://coxmath.blogspot.com/ for examples. But I think most advocates of changing the way teachers are hired and fired would tell you that one must follow the other.