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Laptops Are Not Teachers
By Tim Walker The third bill of Idaho schools Superintendent Tom Luna’s education reform plan is headed for final passage. The bill allocates new spending on laptop computers for high school students...
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Education Nation 2011: Teachers Take the Microphone
By Tim Walker For two hours on Sunday, educators sounded off on a nationally televised forum about the challenges facing public education and what the country can do to address them. The forum was...
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Alternative Pay System Improves Teacher Practice
By Cindy Long Stephen Atwood teaches in Portland, Maine, the small seaside New England city most people associate with lobstermen, lighthouses and a legacy of longtime Mainers. But spend a day in...
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Professional Learning Deserves Professional Pay
By Tim Walker The recently released 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a periodic review of test results among elementary and secondary students in the United States, contained an...
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International Study Links Higher Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality
By Tim Walker This week, the New York Times invited a few members of the education policy world to answer the question “Are Teachers Overpaid?” Probably quite a few teachers are incredulous that this...
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When the Media Asks “Are Teachers Overpaid?” Educators Ask “Are They Crazy?”
By Teal Ruland “Are Teachers Overpaid?” A few weeks ago, the New York Times invited five academics to answer that question in its Room for Debate section. Why would the nation’s “newspaper of record”...
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How a Fair Starting Salary Attracts the Best and Brightest to Teaching
By John Rosales When Matt Goldstein graduated in 2005 from Pennsauken High School in New Jersey, his dream was to finish college and return to the school as a teacher. In 2011, after serving as a...
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New Report Spotlights Stagnant Wage Growth for Mid- and Late-Career Teachers
By Tim Walker While most Americans agree that teachers do not receive the professional pay they deserve, the conversation has generally been framed around the difficulty of attracting people to the...
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When Educators' Pay Slashed, Long-term Economic Damage Follows
By Ilana Kowarski and Cindy Long Educators across the country can tell you first-hand how lost jobs and slashed or stagnant wages have left them struggling to make ends meet. “I can’t afford to buy...
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The Long Hello: The Last Florida District Without a Union Finally Says Yes
It’s been 42 years since Florida’s legislature put in place the state’s collective bargaining law, and finally Calhoun County teachers have decided to take them up on the offer. This year, Calhoun’s...
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Teacher Pay Penalty Driving Educators Away From Profession
Randy Pontius makes less money now as an Indiana social studies teacher than he did when he started 15 years ago. “I know of no other profession where you have that many years of experience and have...
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‘Be Vocal,’ Urges Teacher Arrested at School Board Meeting
Deyshia Hargrave, a Vermilion Parish school teacher who was arrested while speaking against the superintendent’s pay raise at an education board meeting earlier this week, speaks at a rally in her...
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West Virginia Educators Stand United, Win Big for Public Education
With the eyes of educators across the country on them, West Virginia teachers and service professionals in all 55 counties stood united in an historic nine-day statewide strike that ended Tuesday in...
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Arizona Teachers Poised for Largest Walkout in Nation
Teachers from Highland Arts Elementary School stage a final walk-in Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Mesa, Ariz. Communities and school districts are preparing for a historic statewide teacher walkout on...
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Teachers Earned $160 Million on Airbnb in 2017
Educators know all too well that there aren’t enough hours in the day or dollars in the paycheck, so they stretch, save and find creative ways to make ends meet. One of the latest trends is a side gig...
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Average Teacher Salary Down 4.5% Over Past Decade
Amber McCoy, a fourth grade teacher at Kellogg Elementary in Huntington, West Virginia, has 16 years’ experience under her belt, but still makes just $44,000 a year. She also has about $40,000 left in...
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Almost One-Third of New Teachers Take on Second Jobs
Jess Marboe, a fifth-grade teacher, waits tables during her second job at Jaker’s Bar and Grill in Idaho Falls, Idaho. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP) One of the most persistent and...
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