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I wonder if these programs have been watered down because graduate-level educational attainment often results in an automatic increase in teacher compensation.
by bd_at_rivenhill 16y ago
I wonder if these programs have been watered down because graduate-level educational attainment often results in an automatic increase in teacher compensation.
- patio11 16y agoThis creates a market is easily attainable degrees, particularly for online schools or other nontraditional institutions which promise the ability to get a degree while juggling career and family. They typically charge exactly what the government will subsidize. This is not intrinsically a bad thing: the idea behind increAsing educational access was certainly not to have everyone do Harvard undergrad. But, as always, you have to keep an eye on incentives. (I would prefer rewarding things we care about rather than rewarding proxies which are known to have negligible impact on what we care about. Education and seniority of teachers, which entirely determine compensation in most of the US, are both known to be ineffective proxies.)