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Here's a structural thing we could do to improve our education system. Give teachers more money. And on top of that fix, change the career path incentives to ke

Here's a structural thing we could do to improve our education system. Give teachers more money. And on top of that fix, change the career path incentives to keep the best teachers teaching. Right now, the best teachers are financially incentivized to stop teaching and become administrators. Pay teachers more, and pay administrators less: this decreases administration bloat, and increases the competition for being a teacher. The difficult thing to swallow is that we'll probably have to overpay poorly performing teachels for longer than one election cycle.

zanny 8y ago
Its an endemic problem in almost all industries that upward mobility means "management" despite it often being a completely divergent and esoteric skillset from the job you were hired on for, and often one that is less resource intensive to train for - learning good managerial skills can often be a weekend seminar, versus the years it takes to become competent in a companies codebase. But of course the boss sets the salaries so thats where the money ends up going.