All Posts Tagged: 'Teacher Salary Schedules'


Valuing Good Teaching

February 7th, 2010 | Category: Teacher Quality

Research has shown time and again that experience matters in good teaching. What it hasn’t shown is that every experience matters equally. In fact, a teacher’s first few years on the job are by far the most important, and it has been demonstrated repeatedly that the vast majority of teaching improvement comes in the first [...]

A Question for Teachers Unions

March 28th, 2007 | Category: Teacher Quality

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to ask my teachers union friends in the edublogosphere: Why do you support tying salary increases to Master’s degrees, when all the research says that Master’s degrees do your members no good?
It makes a certain kind of sense for unions to support things like seniority raises, tenure, bumping rights, generous [...]