A New York City charter school is promising to pay teachers $125,000, + potential bonus.
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March 7, 2008
At Charter School, Higher Teacher Pay
By ELISSA GOOTMAN
Would six-figure salaries attract better teachers?
A New York City charter school set to open in 2009 in Washington Heights will test one of the most fundamental questions in education: Whether significantly higher pay for teachers is the key to improving schools.
The school, which will run from fifth to eighth grades, is promising to pay teachers $125,000, plus a potential bonus based on schoolwide performance. That is nearly twice as much as the average New York City public school teacher earns, roughly two and a half times the national average teacher salary and higher than the base salary of all but the most senior teachers in the most generous districts nationwide.
The school’s creator and first principal, Zeke M. Vanderhoek, contends that high salaries will lure the best teachers. He says he wants to put into practice the conclusion reached by a growing body of research: that teacher quality — not star principals, laptop computers or abundant electives — is the crucial ingredient for success.
At Charter School, Higher Teacher Pay
By ELISSA GOOTMAN
Would six-figure salaries attract better teachers?
A New York City charter school set to open in 2009 in Washington Heights will test one of the most fundamental questions in education: Whether significantly higher pay for teachers is the key to improving schools.
The school, which will run from fifth to eighth grades, is promising to pay teachers $125,000, plus a potential bonus based on schoolwide performance. That is nearly twice as much as the average New York City public school teacher earns, roughly two and a half times the national average teacher salary and higher than the base salary of all but the most senior teachers in the most generous districts nationwide.
The school’s creator and first principal, Zeke M. Vanderhoek, contends that high salaries will lure the best teachers. He says he wants to put into practice the conclusion reached by a growing body of research: that teacher quality — not star principals, laptop computers or abundant electives — is the crucial ingredient for success.
6 responses // A New York City charter school is promising to pay teachers $125,000, + potential bonus.
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I think the key is to have well paid teachers. I think that too much money in Public School is wasted on administration at the expense of teachers salaries. I believe that teachers need to be paid as much as the career they have is important.
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I think that it is important to be able to pass the standardized tests. I do think that it is even more important to develop as students according to the individual student’s strength as much as the basics. I also think it is as important for student to develop the ability to think and do for themselves.
If I was a teacher in a middle school, I would make this a mandatory reading:
http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm
Self-Reliance is an essay written by American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was first published in his 1841 collection, Essays: First Series. It contains the most solid statement of one of Emerson's repeating themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. -
Its always good to experiment and see the results.
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- cheaney40z
- 6 months ago
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Well i know alot of people who would have been great teachers but opted for different careers merely because that the pay was better.
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- losttraveler66
- 5 months ago
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