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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 |
America's elementary and secondary schools must attract and retain a large number of high-quality teachers if the nation is to reach its goals of raising the academic achievement of all students. CED has a long history of studying and offering recommendations on how to improve our public school. The new CED report, Teacher Compensation and Teacher Quality, examines teacher pay and other compensation issues. Schools must be able to compete effectively for college-educated workers who have more career choices and see themselves as more mobile professionally than did earlier generations. Traditional compensation policies for teachers (salary schedules that reward only longevity and academic credentials, and pension policies that penalize mobile teachers and those who do not spend a lifetime career in teaching) are out of sync with the objective of expanding the pool of talented individuals who are willing to teach.
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