Wow! Memphis needs something like this.

Master’s degree students at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development can receive free tuition in exchange for teaching at some of Metro’s lowest-performing middle schools, under a new partnership announced Monday.

Not to disparage Memphis City School teachers, but removing one of the barriers to higher education for our educators, the cost, might go a long way to attracting and keeping top performing educators here in Memphis.