The article is quite circuitous in presenting personal views on education. Football, finance, education; they are all the same, right?

Insightful report from the acclaimed author of The Tipping Point. Well-researched, informative article on how we evaluate the performance of potential hires, with helpful tips on how to make reliable assessments. An eye-opener.

This is a good story that compares efforts looking for youth that can succeed in NFL and looking for good teachers and workers. The results for each search are limited. There is more we need to learn that what we know that what we currently know.

First, he gets to the heart of the question of what makes a good teacher. Read the story, but it comes down to perception of a student's engagement and an ability to take the perspective of the student - and by doing so - direct a student's attention towards the material. The parallel discussion, regarding the difficulty of scouting college quarterbacks - and assessing how they might perform as a pro - provides an analogy to the difficulty in assessing who might be a good teacher.

Mr. Gladwell wrote a great article that was reserched and put together so the reader could understand the difficulties of placing a person in a job, any job. In reality this even applies at fast food restaurants. Great Job.