What if excellent teaching were guaranteed in every classroom? Teachers Can Be Fired! is an essential guide for anyone who is serious about making that possibility a reality: school administrators, teachers, parents, board members, and concerned citizens. The Total Quality Management (TQM) movement is rapidly taking hold in the education system, but for the most part it has stopped at the classroom door. Teacher's Can Be Fired!is a practical manual for the next stage: the application of TQM methods in supervising and evaluating teachers, so that quality teaching becomes an attainable goal.