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Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) defines highly qualified teachers: To be deemed highly qualified, teachers must have: 1) a bachelor's degree, 2) full state certification or licensu

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

re, and 3) prove that they know each subject they teach. So why the continued resistance to this requirement? After all, don’t we want our children taught by the best teachers es

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ecially given the poor outcomes during the last 25 plus years?

From a common sense perspective, this definition makes sense given the thousands of dollars being paid to teachers

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

According to a report compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics entry-level teachers in 1999-2000 nationally averaged

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

$27,989 with the national average at $41,820.

Comparing these salaries to the number of days spent teaching (national average of 185 days) indicates that a teacher’s daily rate rang

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

s from $151 to $226. When factoring the actual time instructing students which varies from elementary to high school, suggests that teachers are not under paid for their efforts. (NO

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

TE: These figures do not include fringe benefits.)

So why the resistance to this definition and standard? From my observations during the last 10 years, there is a direct connectio

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

between this standard and accountability.

Recently, I had the opportunity to listen to a 7th grade teacher in an urban school spend 1 hour and 45 minutes yelling at her students wi

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

hin a 2 hour period. As a former teacher and now performance driven educational consultant, I know that there was very little learning happening in that classroom. Many would say t

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

at the students were bad and it wasn’t the teacher’s fault. However, in asking some indirect questions, I learned that this teacher was not certified and was hired because she of he

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

relationship with the principal. In fact, this teacher had the better 7th grade students due to the principal’s intervention. Factoring that this is a school on academic probation

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

shows me a true disconnect between highly qualified teacher and accountability. Why would anyone hire a teacher without exceptional credentials in this situation demonstrates a t

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

tal disregard to those students' academic current and future success .

The hiring of non-qualified teachers appears to be a more prevalent practice than many taxpayers realize.

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

Parents, citizens and students presume that their teachers are fully qualified. This practice of hiring non-qualified teachers has contributed to the significant under-education<

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

b> of American children especially those in urban schools.

Under-educating leads to the accountability factor. When children are under-educated, they have experienced t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?id=128439">performance failure conditioning. Yet, many administrators and teachers fight accountability with arguments from blaming parents to n

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ot having enough money.

Currently, the U.S. spends a national average of $10,000 (local, state and federal tax dollars) educating students. In a class of 25 that equals $250,000.

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ven if the expenditure is reduced to $5,000 per student, that still is $125,000. Given that academic growth in elementary and high schools for the last 33 years has average less than

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

1% (Source: Nation’s Report Card), whatever strategies than can be implemented to ensure dramatic performance improvement need to be embraced by every school system and community. Ou

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

nation cannot continue to under-educate any student and NCLB establishment of highly qualified teachers is a solid first step toward eliminating this social crime of under-education

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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