"Pay Teachers More, But Until We Do..."
We need a name for a certain species of education "reformer." The characteristics of this particular animal are:
- He believes we really need to pay teachers more.
- He has no plan for how to raise the revenues to pay teachers more.
- Until he figures out how to pay teachers more, he thinks we need to fire bad teachers immediately. And replace them with good teachers, who will be paid with...
- Uh...
For an excellent example of this reformy creature's thinking, let's check in with education tourist Nick Kristof:
This latest study should elevate the issue on the national agenda, because it not only
