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Obama: Give teachers more and extra pay
A sharp-eyed reader here at Get on the Bus pointed me to this clip in which Charlie Rose asks Barack Obama for his thoughts on education that is part of a mashup on all of the candidates’ positions on a variety of issues.
In the clip, Obama calls No Child Left Behind “false advertising,” saying the U.S. Education system does well for some but not for all.
Obama goes on to say he favors bonuses for those willing to teach math and science or in inner city and rural schools. He talks up an impending teacher shortage and the need to attact new people to the profession. To do that, he says we’ll have to pay them more, offer them more professional deveopment and rely on their judgement to set standards. He also says he favors universal early childhood education.
This post also appears at the Education Writers Association’s Education Election blog.
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By Mary
September 16, 2007 3:59 PM | Link to this
old prof, I would say rural schools, like other schools, including urban schools, are leaving their gifted, or high IQ, students behind. Their test scores probably meet minimums, but their education is the pits. I attended rural schools decades ago, and doubt much has changed. This is at least one area all schools seem to have in common -lack of appropriate services for their highest ability students while providing unique and costly services to the athletically gifted whether they are in the rural areas, the suburbs, or the cities.By Oldprof
September 15, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this
Reasonable. One of the big problems with teaching is that it takes a new teacher several years to learn the ropes (just like anyone starting in a difficult profession). But the average length of a teaching career is under five years—which means that most new teachers quit before they start to get really good at it. Increasing the pay (which is the main reason cited for leaving teaching) would help, as would a complete retrenching of university education programs. The only thing I see here that doesn’t ring true is that rural high schools currently are not in trouble, they don’t have an impossible time attracting teachers and their students are not being left behind, generally. The only places where hazardous-duty pay is needed are the urban districts or perhaps some extremely out-of-the-way parts.