“American teachers are underpaid.” That’s how Professor Dick Startz begins his recent article, "Teacher Pay Around the World." He goes on to describe how, compared to other members of the OECD, the ratio of American teachers’ salaries to those offered in alternative career paths is quite low. In fact, on average, American teachers make roughly two-thirds of what their peers in other careers make. To make this more concrete, consider two students graduating from the same college at the same … [Read more...]
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Right-to-Work: How We Got Here
Image: By Justin Ormont (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] Right-to-work laws returned to public discourse in February 2011 when Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin proposed Act 10 to cut Wisconsin’s budget. Act 10 was not itself a right-to-work law, but it contained many of the same ideas and goals such as restricting the collective bargaining power of unions. Act 10 shocked the country because Wisconsin had always been a union stronghold. It caused many … [Read more...]