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> You can't easily chop off the bottom 10% each year and bring in an additional 500,000 new teachers. Yes you can. You just have to offer high enough salaries
by Eliezer 16y ago
> You can't easily chop off the bottom 10% each year and bring in an additional 500,000 new teachers.
Yes you can. You just have to offer high enough salaries.
- kenjackson 16y agoIn the US we graduate about 100k engineering students each year(http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2008/11/50-of-us-engineering-students-dropout---why.html http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2008/11/50-of...). So even if we hired every engineering graduate from US schools every year, we wouldn't fill the gap, by a long shot. My point is that for a population this huge you're not going to be able to backfill for any reasonable dollar amount or you have to significantly lower your standards, in which case you're probably hiring people that will largely fall into that same bottom 10% next year.
- earl 16y agoFine. Amend kenjackson's statement to say that, in the real world, voters have demonstrated in practice they are unwilling to pay sufficient taxes to attract a high quality group of people to teaching as a profession.