Years ago, the powerful director of a local teachers union told me in no uncertain terms: Differential pay for teachers in high-poverty schools wasn’t a good idea and wouldn’t help poor kids. He called it, and I quoted him, “a glitzy solution.” So what a jolt it was to learn,[Read More…]
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Report: U.S. spent (wasted?) $14.8 billion paying teachers for master’s degrees
School districts spent nearly $15 billion in the 2007-08 school year to pay teachers extra for earning master’s degrees, up 72 percent from four years prior, concludes a report released this week by a left-leaning think tank. The Center for American Progress suggests money for the so-called “master’s bump” was not well[Read More…]