27 Feb 2022 7:24 am
golfboy » 27 Feb 2022, 8:11 am » wrote: ↑ We pay more for education than any country in the world, and the results are pathetic, and getting worse.
Where is that money going, if not to the teachers?
Hell if I know. But YOUR OWN ARTICLE said teachers need be paid more. Didn't you READ it??“
"In the US what they did in 1910 made a lot of sense. They created a huge pool to teach who did not know a lot and wouldn’t be around for long,” said Tucker. The US “got lucky” in a world where college-educated women had few other options. Now those options are opening up and people who could have made great teachers are choosing other options.
The solution is clear, he says. “We have to have more highly educated teachers and we need to pay them more,” he said.But it doesn’t seem like Washington is listening. “To some extent it is plain hubris. We were so dominant for so long that it’s hard for us to accept that there are now so many countries pulling ahead of us,” said Tucker.