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Bear Market
The recent entry of for-profit schools into the K–12 arena is an intriguing trend.
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Rewarding Expertise
For most of the century just past, and into the current one, school districts have paid their teachers according to a “single salary schedule,” a pay scheme that bases an individual teacher’s salary on two factors: years of experience (steps) and number of education credits and degrees (lanes).
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Let the Market Decide
A 1962 RAND Corporation study on teacher pay described teacher salary schedules in the following way:
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Romancing the Child
Curing American education of its enduring belief that learning is natural
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Deconstructing RAND
Improving Student Achievement: What NAEP State Test Scores Tell Us by David W. Grissmer et al.