This review of the Carnegie Report on Teaching, "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century" presents an overview the report's goals for the future of the teaching profession. Written by the Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, the report goal's were to: (1) remind America of its economic challenges; (2) "assert the primacy of education as the foundation of economic growth, equal opportunity, and a shared national vision"; (3) reaffirm that "the teaching profession is the one best hope for establishing new standards of excellence"; and (4) point out that the next decade provides a very special "window of opportunity" for reforming education. This snyopsis of the report describes: the situation of educational reform; a scenario of schools of the future; the reform plan; details for teaching staff (standards, incentives, teaching environment, salaries, and restructuring of teacher preparation); and implementing the plan. (CB)