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The article discusses the results of a study into the British government's success meeting goals set in Great Britain's 2008 "Teachers meeting the challenge of change," green paper. It is reported that the study finds that reforms in Great Britain's educational policy have been largely successful at meeting the paper's goals to promote excellent school leadership through improved compensation, to recruit more teachers by implementing higher salaries, and to improve support for teachers.

States that if the government of Great Britain is to improve educators' salaries, then the profession must be prepared to modernize. Aim to reform the structure of the teaching profession; Case for modernization; Need for improved leadership; Claim that high quality teaching is not rewarded; Establishment of a General Teaching Council; Increased pay for advanced skills teachers; Proposed publishing of a Green Paper on the future or education; Goals of the Green Paper.

Comments on the new British government's education White Paper entitled `Excellence in Schools.' Significance of the 1943 education White Paper entitled `Educational Reconstruction'; Strategy to raise standards of literacy and numeracy; National Union of Teachers' reaction to the new document.