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The entire opening of the article seems to be designed to take advantage of confirmation bias - the initial "there is no pay gap" is just an assertion, and then
by tunesmith 7y ago
The entire opening of the article seems to be designed to take advantage of confirmation bias - the initial "there is no pay gap" is just an assertion, and then a bunch of therefores are built on top of it.
Their entire argument seems to be based on "the pay gap calculation is dumb", but the problem is, even if that is true, that doesn't disprove that teachers are underpaid.
The point about teachers having above average pensions is a good point.
Salary correlating with required skill level also misses some of the point, I believe, because qualitatively speaking, skill level isn't the most driving factor behind choosing to become a teacher.
The "if teachers aren't paid well, why aren't we seeing more of them quit?" is a lousy point. Some jobs are simply more important than others, and its jobs practitioners know that. They are less likely to quit.
I wonder if there's a way to calculate replacement cost. Like, what the long term damage to society would be if 20% of a particular work force disappeared. That might be a better way to estimate how much teachers should actually be paid.
- Florin_Andrei 7y agoThe whole "article" is propaganda by a neocon think tank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute
- DougPhillips88 7y agoAnd this contradicts their data... how, exactly?
- OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y agoAny paper put out by an extremely ideological think tank is going to present statistics in the most biased way possible, to try to prove their point.
- harry8 7y agoIt's additional data that is definitely worth knowing.
- Florin_Andrei 7y agoThanks for the laugh.
- tunesmith 7y agoBut why male models?
- mattbreeden 7y ago> The "if teachers aren't paid well, why aren't we seeing more of them quit?" is a lousy point. Some jobs are simply more important than others, and its jobs practitioners know that. They are less likely to quit. They reaaaally like to pull the guilt card every chance they can too. 'Think of the children!', 'If you quit, who will be there for these kids?', etc.. I don't know that removing a lot of the guilt would make teachers quit more, but I do think they would quit bad school environments more in favor of better ones, but they don't want to abandon the kids.