Précis for first article

In his article, “Teacher Quality: What’s Wrong with U.S. Strategy?” author Marc Tucker claims that America does not have a good strategy for producing high quality teachers. He develops and supports this claim by breaking down the strategies used to produce good teachers and comparing American strategy to the strategy of other top teacher and student performing countries. His purpose is to inform Americans of the current education problems in order to promote reform and new policies regarding obtaining high quality teachers. The intended audience are politicians in charge of making the education laws as well as the America voters.