ABSTRACT
The strategic management of human capital (SMHC) in public education is about recruiting effective teachers and principals for all classrooms and schools in the country, particularly high-need schools with concentrations of students from poverty and minority backgrounds; equipping those teachers and principals with the instructional and leadership expertise needed to dramatically improve student achievement and close the achievement gaps linked to poverty and race; and rewarding and retaining those who are successful in attaining these objectives and letting go those who are not.
