A recent opinion piece by Dan DiSalvo in the Wall Street Journal (subscription may be required) points out a painful truth about the current debate over teacher pay: the rising ... Keep Reading
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Teacher Pay or Teacher Compensation?
Teacher salary is a subject that seems to never goes away in North Carolina. One of the reasons why this is so is because of how we talk about it. Our discussions are frequently ... Keep Reading
What’s missing from the teacher pay discussion
What’s missing from the teacher pay discussion Focusing just on salary figures paints an incomplete picture Pay boosts for academic credentials and certifications are ... Keep Reading
Teacher Compensation: the other side of teacher pay
Our discussions on teacher pay are usually limited to salary. A correct understanding of teacher pay also includes compensation for benefits such as health insurance, retirement ... Keep Reading
Teacher Pay, Part III: The Rising Cost of Benefits
Rising cost of health and retirement benefits is ignored in current discussion Share of employee salary state dedicates for retirement benefits has increased 347 percent since ... Keep Reading
NCAE and teacher salaries
This morning’s News & Observer runs a story about an upcoming NCAE report chronicling teacher and staff job losses and the slippage in educational quality -- or at least the ... Keep Reading