Las Vegas school officials are puzzling over how to get enough teachers to open schools next year. (Click chart from Las Vegas Sun at right to enlarge). Could the shrinking applicant pool have something to do with a $33,000 starting salary where the median home price is $317,400? Do you think?
This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
An Ownership Society on Wages That Can't Even Pay the Rent
Las Vegas school officials are puzzling over how to get enough teachers to open schools next year. (Click chart from Las Vegas Sun at right to enlarge). Could the shrinking applicant pool have something to do with a $33,000 starting salary where the median home price is $317,400? Do you think?
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