[etni] Re: for Dovrat's eyes only(?)

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Folks,

what has caught my eye in the article Reuben sent the link to is the 
following:

"Yet the problem with most pay reforms ... is that they're all stick and 
no carrot."

A few years ago I tried to figure out what sort of 
teaching-enhancement-related incentives exist in other countries that 
would be parallel to the so-called "gmul hishtalmut;" I spoke to 
colleagues from Poland, Turkey, Italy, the UK, Argentina, Brazil, 
Greece, the US, Russia and some other countries. The answer invariably 
was "none whatsoever."

Polish colleagues told me that they were facing a considerable job cut 
due to the fact that the number of children going to school was 
dwindling (birth rate going down). They expected 30% of the jobs to go 
by 2010. So the administration policy was: go and take some courses, or 
else...

Other countries have more or less the same attitude: no positive 
incentives; lots of negative ones. Israel seemed like the only place 
where teachers were still getting the carrot while the rest of the world 
preferred the stick.

We will lose this advantage if the Dovrat plan is implemented.

And, unlike in the US, where they are trying to lure better teachers to 
poor-neighborhood schools by raising their salaries, no-one is talking 
of raising our per-hour pay or improving working conditions no matter 
where and whom we teach. We'll be teaching larger classes, working much 
more and making much less in per hour terms.

Happy reading -

Lev

Reuben Moses wrote:

>Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Dovrat, special-lee
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/28/opinion/28miller.html
>
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