To Build a Better Teacher: The Emergence of a Competitive Education Industry »

ROBERT GRAY HOLLAND is a Senior Fellow with the Lexington Institute in the Washington, D.C., area. As a newspaper columnist and editor, Holland won the H. L. Mencken Award for his incisive writing on education. He is prominent among school reformers seeking the nationwide spread of greater choice in education. His articles have appeared in such journals as Policy Review, the Howard University Law Journal, and USA Today, as well as in major newspapers. His 1995 book, Not With My Child, You Don't, told the story of parental opposition to mandatory school restructuring.

Proposes breaking up the teacher-preparation monopoly and replacing it with a market-based approach.