[etni] Solving the teacher pay issue could help students
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- Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 06:37:22 +0200
Solving the teacher pay issue could help students
KALAMAZOO NEWS - October 3, 2009
For decades, the debate about teacher pay was framed in simplistic terms:
Are teachers paid too much or too little?
The teacher-pay debate is heating up nowadays, with even President Barack
Obama weighing in, but the nature of the discussion has changed
considerably. Rather than the too-much-or-too-little argument, there’s
growing consensus that the real problem is a system that rewards seniority
over performance, ignores the difference between, say, teaching gym and
calculus, and fails miserably at putting the best teachers with the kids who
need them most.
At the core of the debate is this recognition: Teacher quality is the
single-most important factor in school quality.
An at-risk kid who has stellar teachers has a good chance of success,
research shows. The at-risk kid with poor teachers for several years running
is academically sunk.
“It’s time to start rewarding good teachers, (and) stop making excuses for
bad ones,” Obama said in a March speech.
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/10/solving_the_teacher_pay_issue.html
)
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