Nick Kristof: Pay Teachers More

Teachers will like the headline, but maybe not all the recommendations from this NY Times columnist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13kristof.html?_r=1&ref=nicholasdkristof

Teaser:

Recent scholarship suggests that good teachers, even kindergarten teachers, increase their students’ earnings many years later. Eric A. Hanushek of Stanford University found that an excellent teacher (one a standard deviation better than average, or better than 84 percent of teachers) raises each student’s lifetime earnings by $20,000. If there are 20 students in the class, that is an extra $400,000 generated, compared with a teacher who is merely average.

A teacher better than 93 percent of other teachers would add $640,000 to lifetime pay of a class of 20, the study found.