The Teacher Wars (50 page)

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But education finance expert:
Bruce Baker,
Revisiting that Age-Old Question: Does Money Matter in Education?
(Albert Shanker Institute report, 2012).

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median income:
All figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Occupational Outlook Handbook
,
http://​www.​bls.​gov/​ooh/
. The figure for teachers was calculated by averaging the median incomes of elementary, middle, and high school teachers.

3
In the 1940s, male teachers earned:
Eric A. Hanushek, “Valuing Teachers: How Much Is a Good Teacher Worth?”
Education Next
11, no. 3 (2011).

4
In South Korea, teacher salaries:
Byron Auguste, Paul Kihn, and Matt Miller,
Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates in Teaching
(McKinsey and Company report, September 2010), 20.

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a New York City public school teacher:
The UFT salary schedule is available at
http://​www.​uft.​org/​our-​rights/​salary-​schedules/​teachers
. For North Carolina, see Emery P. Dalesio, “Report: NC Teacher Pay Slides Against Peer States,” WRAL/Associated Press, March 6, 2013.

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“plural professionalism”:
Jal Mehta and Steven Teles, “Professionalism 2.0: The Case for Plural Professionalism in Education” in
Teacher Quality 2.0: Toward a New Era in Education Reform
, ed. Frederick Hess and Michael McShane (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2014).

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In Singapore, after three years on the job:
Rachel Curtis,
Finding a New Way: Leveraging Teacher Leadership to Meet Unprecedented Demands
(Aspen Institute report, February 2013).

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a huge oversupply of prospective elementary school teachers:
Stephen Sawchuk, “Colleges Overproducing Elementary Teachers, Data Find,”
Education Week
, January 23, 2013.

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Preliminary data from New York City:
Reports on New York teacher prep institutions available at
http://​schools.​nyc.​gov/​Offices/​DHR/​Human​Capital​Data/​TPPR
.

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A McKinsey study:
Auguste, Kihn, and Miller,
Closing the Talent Gap
.

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“put on a diet”:
Fixing Classroom Observations
(The New Teacher Project report, November 2013).

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Yet only 17 percent of public school teachers are nonwhite:
Data from “Teacher Trends,” National Center for Education Statistics,
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=28
.

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Between 2010 and 2012, 2.5 percent:
From a National Council on Teacher Quality survey of large urban districts, 2011. Results at
http://​www.​nctq.​org/​commentary/​view​Story.​do?​id=​29568
.

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there are only twelve states:
Via StudentsFirst,
http://​www.​students​first.​org/​lifo
.

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surveys of dropouts:
Bridgeland, Dilulio, and Morison,
The Silent Epidemic
.

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“radically decentralized”:
David Labaree,
Someone Has to Fail
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).

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,
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—————. Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform
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—————.
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—————. A History of Freedom of Teaching in American Schools
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—————. The School
and
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.

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—————. “The Displacement of Black Educators Post-Brown: An Overview and Analysis.”
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