Let's compare teacher salaries in different countries and find out.
You go, USA! Looks like we need to bust up some teachers' unions and get those pay scales down even lower.
(That's sarcasm, for any Republicans/Teabaggers/Libertarians who might show up and find that kind of thing difficult to read. We're starving our teachers; it's not a job that earns significant returns on the major educational investment it takes.)
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Last week, E.D. Kain took Megan McArdle to task for promoting the use of student testing as a means to evaluate teachers. This, to me, was the key point:
What makes a good science teacher? That is the new ask-a-scienceblogger
question. I am sure that there has been a lot of research into this,
none of which I have read. That is why this post is categorized as an
"armchair musing."