[thechat] P.o.Ws - Thought this was interesting...

deke web at master.gen.in.us
Tue Jan 29 13:43:00 CST 2002


On 29 Jan 2002 at 14:30, Ron White posted a message which said:

> I said paying the profession more would result in better skilled people
> entering the field instead of the mostly bottom rung folks that didn't
> have grades to do anything else... Better quality teachers would lead to
> better education...

Nice theory - but statistics say otherwise. The states that have the
highest academic achievement are mostly *not* the states that pay
teachers the most.

deke

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