100 representative American Kids entering high school. What does fate have in store for them . 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. A total of 50 wont go to college. Thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. Meanwhi meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. On a recent international test, u. S. Students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. Overall, the World Economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. Whats odd is that weve been outspending most developed countries by a long shot. In 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the 7,400 average for rich countries. How can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it . Well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in American Education here on this special essay. Well examine the role of teachers, testing ands technology. And we ask the man who spent
do about maximizing money. right, right. and you re trying to influence them by offering them a little bit more money or a little bit less money. mm-hmm. is it really going to work? the merit pay proposal that we put in place in washington, d.c., allowed the most highly effective teachers who were teaching in the lowest performing schools to make twice as much money as they were in the old system. so when you re talking about the potential of doubling someone s salary, that s not a little bit of money. what the gates foundation is trying to do is to come up with the perfect combination of carrots and sticks to improve teacher performance. the hillsborough county, florida, school district, covering the tampa area, got a $100 million gates grant to be one of the foundation s new guinea pigs. after some tough negotiating, here s the system that the union and administrators came up with. let s continue as we normally do, okay? new teachers are given lots of training and on
rationale behind this is wrong. you re looking at teachers who have gone into this profession for reasons that don t have to do about maximizing money. right, right. and you re trying to influence them by offering them a little bit more money or a little bit less money. mm-hmm. is it really going to work? the merit pay proposal that we put in place in washington, d.c., allowed the most highly effective teachers who were teaching in the lowest performing schools to make twice as much money as they were in the old system. so when you re talking about the potential of doubling someone s salary, that s not a little bit of money. what the gates foundation is trying to do is to come up with the perfect combination of carrots and sticks to improve teacher performance. the hillsborough county, florida, school district, covering the tampa area, got a $100 million gates grant to be one of the foundation s new guinea pigs. after some tough negotiating, here s the system that the union
a little bit more money or a little bit less money. mm-hmm. is it really going to work? the merit pay proposal that we put in place in washington, d.c., allowed the most highly effective teachers who were teaching in the lowest performing schools to make twice as much money as they were in the old system. so when you re talking about the potential of doubling someone s salary, that s not a little bit of money. what the gates foundation is trying to do is to come up with the perfect combination of carrots and sticks to improve teacher performance. the hillsborough county, florida, school district, covering the tampa area, got a $100 million gates grant to be one of the foundation s new guinea pigs. after some tough negotiating, here s the system that the union and administrators came up with. let s continue as we normally do, okay? new teachers are given lots of training and on on-call professional mentor so they have a real chance to succeed. here s what i want to do. t
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