Posted on 07/17/2012 9:59:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration unveiled plans Wednesday to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost U.S. students' achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.
The program to reward high-performing teachers with salary stipends is part of a long-term effort by President Barack Obama to encourage education in high-demand areas that hold the key to future economic growth — and to close the achievement gap between American students and their international peers.
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One cannot have a good grasp of Judeo-Christianity without a fair grounding in science. They compliment one another.
Your giving him to much credit. it’s obvious by the way he is spending money that simple addition and subtraction is beyond him.
I bet you have to be a black teacher as well.
I bet you have to be a black teacher as well.
Why?
Very successful teachers didn’t get there on their own.
They drive to school on roads they didn’t build..
Teach in schools someone else constructed..
Use the internet they didn’t invent..
Teach from books they didn’t write..
No, I think we need to tax teachers to pay their fair share.
You're right about that, but I think it is really performance pay that they're against. They don't want someone looking over their shoulder to see if they're actually teaching what they're supposed to.
This extra pay will probably be based on some touchy-feeley survey that they can manipulate to their benefit.
“complement” ... but you are right, certainly from an historical perspective.
....with union approval of course.........
If this ever gets close to happening, the NEA will file suit claiming this violates their contracts and demand that all its members should get the same money as these “master teachers”.
This is just election season BS from the Master Teacher himself.
When it comes to high school and college money...I personally don’t think a single cent ought to go into operations or administrative cost from the federal government. If the federal government wanted to kick in some renovation or maintenance money...fairly cut around each of the fifty states...maybe. Schools ought to be run strictly by the county or district...with all funding coming via the county or state bucket of cash. The minute you involve the federal guys...it’s just money being soaked up by the union operations.
The best education On Earth is only worth a Billion Dollars? How about 10 Billion,Or 100 Billion,come on Obumbo,cheapskate
Right you are!
Great - and all these engineers, scientists and mathematicians will emigrate to find jobs - as all of the largest and most successful tech companies continue to ship jobs off-shore.
Dean Kamen likes to run around the country, soliciting funds for his ‘competitions’ and promising kids that degrees in science and technology will assure they will always be in demand. In the meantime, tens of thousands with PhD, MS and BS degrees in Pharmacology, Biology and medicine have lost their jobs as bio-research has moved out of the US to countries with more attractive tax and investment policies. Thousands of IT techies are un- or under-employed, as cheap H1B’s get their practical experience here and jobs stream off-shore. One of the largest and most successful IT firms on the east coast, once an icon of US creativity - now has over 70% of its employees located outside the US - including multiple major R&D labs in China, Asia, South America and Europe.
Just another billion borrowed dollars being pissed away by the Kenyan Kommunist Klown to no good purpose.
A plague on him.
The concept of rewarding teachers for performance conflicts with the current public school model of “no child federal dollars left behind”.
Thank you for the correction. I’ve my 1957 Webster’s New World right next to me, but think I know enough to not pick it up. Oh, the arrogance....
When your only strategy is to overwhelm the system, the more ways you can think of to piss money away, the better.
Her first science fair attempt produced two fifth (5th) grade students whose projects outscored hundreds of sixth (6th), seventh (7th), and eighth (8th) grade competitors, (including first place) in our Region -- and qualified for State competition.
Her reward? She was laid off at the end of that year for "lack of seniority".
As a Latin teacher, I object.
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