Good article, of course, but perception is the key, and the article notes that teachers are perceived to be underpaid because of their annual salaries.
Most interesting, I thought, was the brief paragraph discussing gains in students scores when teachers' pay was tied to student performance. Perhaps this should be the model of the future.
But $47.00 an hour in Detroit! Wow!
Yes, i don't know that dividing an annual salary by 9 months is really a fair way to determine what their hourly pay is.
Strange, my wife is a teacher (junior high special education), and she works 10 hours a day, for 9 months a year (approximately 40 weeks). That comes to 2000 hours a year. She makes about $19.00 an hour (rounding UP).
"Most interesting, I thought, was the brief paragraph discussing gains in students scores when teachers' pay was tied to student performance. Perhaps this should be the model of the future."
I don't think they allow them to separate them out any more do they? They used to have a "slow" class when I was a student but that was at the dawn of time. The teacher wouldn't have a chance if the class contained a bunch of borderline retards that held them all back.
Hazardous duty pay
I shoulda been a teacher. Dang.