--- title: Work: Making Teachers the Real Superstars description: Snooping for terrorists among schoolkids, why fighting corruption won't end poverty, the FBI's wasted violent crime fighting tool and more. canonical: https://time.com/3978302/making-teachers-the-real-superstars/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-30T16:01:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:14.628Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Making Teachers the Real Superstars og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3978302/making-teachers-the-real-superstars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Making Teachers the Real Superstars twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Making Teachers the Real Superstars by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 30, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 30, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**What if we obsessed over teachers — and paid them — like we do athletes?**](https://sojo.net/articles/watch-new-key-and-peele-skit-imagines-world-where-we-glorify-teachers-we-do-athletes) By Ryan Stewart (and Key & Peele) in Sojourners **2\.** [**Can we really find future terrorists by spying on schoolkids? Should we?**](http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/10/schools-trial-anti-radicalisation-software-pupils-internet) By Diane Taylor in the Guardian **3\.** [**By all means, fight corruption. But don’t expect it to end poverty.**](http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/fighting-corruption-wont-end-poverty-by-ricardo-hausmann-2015-07) By Ricardo Hausmann in Project Syndicate **4\.** [**The FBI’s revolutionary tool for catching violent criminals might work — if anyone used it.**](http://www.propublica.org/article/the-fbi-built-a-database-that-can-catch-rapists-almost-nobody-uses-it) By T. Christian Miller in ProPublica **5\.** [**Scientists are developing an X-ray pill you can swallow.**](http://qz.com/467119/scientists-are-developing-an-x-ray-pill-you-can-swallow/) By Mike Murphy in Quartz  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3978302/making-teachers-the-real-superstars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3978302/making-teachers-the-real-superstars/"},"headline":"Making Teachers the Real Superstars","datePublished":"2015-07-30T16:01:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:14.628Z","description":"These are the best ideas of the day","url":"https://time.com/3978302/making-teachers-the-real-superstars/","keywords":["Innovation","poverty","corruption","Terrorism","FBI","Teachers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3978302/making-teachers-the-real-superstars/","name":"Making Teachers the Real Superstars"}}]}] ```