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Are teachers paid too much?
- 11-02-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
I never thought I’d do this, but I’m going to call Michelle Rhee, superstar school reformer who can’t do enough to diminish the role of teachers unions, as an expert witness on the subject of teachers. Yet another report has been published purporting to tell us something new about the world of education. This one, called “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers,” makes the argument that teachers are overpaid. The authors, Jason Richwine, senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and Andrew Biggs, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, both highly conservative organizations, generally say that: (more...)
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