> This is probably exactly what administrators want, though. Cheap teachers, and damn the consequences. Are you kidding? Administrators live or die on test sco

> This is probably exactly what administrators want, though. Cheap teachers, and damn the consequences. Are you kidding? Administrators live or die on test scores, and the non-brain-dead ones realize that good teachers are the best way to get those test scores. They don't really have a choice, though -- they work with what they're given in tax money and in many states don't even have any autonomy in compensation (NEA). IMO the problem is way earlier in the pipeline, anyways. Even if administrators deeply cared about quality, they'd find a shallow pool. As a good rule of thumb, people who are good at mathematics don't become teachers. They become engineers or go into finance and consulting or write software. And it's all about pay and quality of work environment. I'd teach high school math in a heart beat if the working conditions were more reasonable and it paid even half as well as my other options.