haileydavey
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So how do standardized test results portray results in real life?
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Conservatives want better teachers, and their plan to get better teachers is to
make teachers' education less affordable,
pay them less as teachers,
make their jobs less secure,
take away or reduce their bargaining rights and powers.
In short, conservatives think that the best and brightest in this country will become teachers only if we make the teaching profession as unattractive a career choice as we can.
Conservatives want better teachers, and their plan to get better teachers is to
make teachers' education less affordable,
I am not sure I understand your point here, so they want to make it cheaper to get a certificate?
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Teach for (Some of) America - WSJ.com
Interesting article....actually most teaching salary structures are designed to discourage anyone from making a serious "Career" in teaching. After 5-6 years, your annual salary may not increase, or if it does, it is incrementally with inflation.
The ideal is and has always been, for the teacher's salary to supplement family income. This is why teachers medical benefits suck: so few choose to be on them because their spouces family medical benefits are so consistantly superior.
The question seems to arise: Why pretend that teaching is a "profession?" Tens of thousands of graduates VOLUNTEER to do it for a couple of years!
My concern, as a principal bringing in recent College graduates (age 21) into a rural MS school of Horny Students (ages 13-18) would be that the volunteers not really have much appreciation for ......erm......
"Distancing Themselves from the Students."
The volunteers have much less to lose should they "know" their pupils too well.
Interesting article....actually most teaching salary structures are designed to discourage anyone from making a serious "Career" in teaching. After 5-6 years, your annual salary may not increase, or if it does, it is incrementally with inflation.
The ideal is and has always been, for the teacher's salary to supplement family income. This is why teachers medical benefits suck: so few choose to be on them because their spouces family medical benefits are so consistantly superior.
The question seems to arise: Why pretend that teaching is a "profession?" Tens of thousands of graduates VOLUNTEER to do it for a couple of years!
My concern, as a principal bringing in recent College graduates (age 21) into a rural MS school of Horny Students (ages 13-18) would be that the volunteers not really have much appreciation for ......erm......
"Distancing Themselves from the Students."
The volunteers have much less to lose should they "know" their pupils too well.
This is total crap. In Michigan, health care benefits for teachers are only exceeded by government employees in coverage and low deductables. Retirements seem to be at a much youger age with a better payout than almost anyone else. Salaries, particularly when figured on a 9 and one half month basis, are huge.