Restoring Teacher Dignity
Baker, Tony / 2010

This report sets out to show that this issue of scarce resources needs not be the case. Many inputs to learner outcomes can be strengthened by the implementation of TDMS. Scarce resources are indeed a problem in recent budget trends, but they need not be. This report attempts to offer ideas and approaches on how to provide the financial backing to a national strategy that may be pivotal to the quality of the nation?s education. These recommendations are not meant to provide definitive guidelines to amending the budget as such detailed budget information to accurately do so is not accessible; rather, they are meant to awaken one to the possibilities of achieving such changes and to demonstrate that such restoration to the teaching profession and its subsequent improvements to learner outcomes are much more in reach than before assumed.