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Are teachers underpaid?(Indicators)(Brief Article)
Every time a teacher's union contract comes up for negotiation, teachers complain that they are underpaid. Indeed, relative to other professionals with similar levels of education, teachers take home less money per year. But they also work significantly fewer hours: National statistics show they are rarely at their job site more than seven hours a day. Their take-home work is quite comparable to that of other professions. And they get much longer vacations than workers in any other common profession.
Economist Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, has calculated professional compensation on an hourly basis, ...
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- Magazine article from: Education Next June 22, 2003 700+ words
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