re: 9 reasons why public educ fails

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The answer is to raise the pay to get more of the brightest back in the profession.

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Well, one answer on the pay front is differential pay.

If you want teachers of a certain quality, not all disciplines are equally difficult to attract. The simple fact is, a solid High school calculus teacher is harder to attract at a given salary than a high school art teacher.

There is literally zero reason that if you figure out that you need to pay 25% more to attract good calc teachers that you also give the art teacher a 25% pay raise. You already have a line around the building of those guys trying to get hired(not, these are examples and art is not the only example of easy less difficult disciplines to attract)