Long Reviled, Merit Pay Gains Among Teachers
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Minnesotaâs $86 million teacher professionalization and merit pay initiative got a lift last week when teachers voted overwhelmingly to expand it in Minneapolis.
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American public schools are struggling to attract and retain high-quality teachers. Is it time we paid them for performance?
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Women who went to single-sex schools have higher earnings than those from mixed classes, a study shows.
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Teachers need an above-inflation pay rise if reforms are to continue, unions say.
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By Stacey Burling, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 5--The rich really are getting richer in Pennsylvania.   And, according to a new report on wages, everybody else is getting poorer.
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Four months into the school year, some themes are working better than others, but at even the best-run schools, the future remains unclear.
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Paid governors for groups of schools might be an answer to recruitment in poorer areas, a study suggests.
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There are ways to secure higher pay even when all other employees receive the same annual increase, says Sue Shellenbarger. Plus, more on work and family.
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While details of the new contract are still being worked out, Long is getting a pay raise of about $100,000 a year in an annual salary package totaling $425,000.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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A new public school teacher in North Dakota works for a year on probation before getting job security. For a teacher in Missouri, it's five years. It's just one example of how policies affecting the teaching profession vary from state to state, according to a report by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a private group in Washington.
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Many U.S. public school districts are  starting a new school year with fewer teachers as less state  funding and other factors leave them with gaping budget holes  and nothing else left to cut but instructors, school and  teachers union officials say.
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Salaries for top executives at U.S.   nonprofits including hospitals and universities grew at a   steady clip last year with some leaders taking home more than   $1 million, according to a survey released on Monday.
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Higher starting salaries, more rigorous teacher training programs and additional support for first year teachers are just a few of the incentives needed to deal with a projected shortfall of more than 280,000 math and science teachers across the country by 2015, according to a group of business,...
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Some 2,500 teachers in the city are being measured on how much their students improve on standardized tests.
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By Houston Chronicle  Jun. 9----The Tomball school district's proposed salary of $42,850 for starting teachers in 2007-08 is still awaiting school board approval. A chart on Page B4 Friday contained incorrect information.
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Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year's elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000