Comments on: About LeaderTalk and Education Week http://edinsanity.com/2008/09/02/about-leadertalk-and-education-week/ “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jon Becker http://edinsanity.com/2008/09/02/about-leadertalk-and-education-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1196 Jon Becker Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:05:01 +0000 http://edinsanity.com/?p=199#comment-1196 Ed, I think that much of the explanation for teacher salaries being as low as they are is because it has historically been perceived as a "woman's job." And, as that, it is perceived as not worthy of respectability and, therefore, not compensated that well. Are you at all implying that some form of merit pay is worth exploring? Ed, I think that much of the explanation for teacher salaries being as low as they are is because it has historically been perceived as a “woman’s job.” And, as that, it is perceived as not worthy of respectability and, therefore, not compensated that well.

Are you at all implying that some form of merit pay is worth exploring?

]]> By: Ed Jones http://edinsanity.com/2008/09/02/about-leadertalk-and-education-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1192 Ed Jones Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:14:32 +0000 http://edinsanity.com/?p=199#comment-1192 Jon, Waaaahh! Is that too flippant? Likely. Yet that's the tone I take from this. Not that I entirely disagree with the sentiment. Edweek isn't on the list of things I can afford, and its frustrating when people send or publish links I can't access. Yet I am also not on the public school payroll, and don't take home near that much cash. The real question here is, if teachers cannot afford to pay for their professional reading, why? One reason, as we've said here before, is that the economic model by which teacher pay is determined...doesn't work. It doesn't work primarily because it goes against the grain of all that we know about human behavior in the form of economics. Other professions all recognize this; of knowledge workers, only the teaching profession chooses to march in to the payroll office all at once to ask for a raise. Imagine if you were Northrop's CFO and every single engineer in the company came to you at exactly the same time to negotiate a raise! How would you respond? Jon,

Waaaahh!

Is that too flippant? Likely. Yet that’s the tone I take from this. Not that I entirely disagree with the sentiment. Edweek isn’t on the list of things I can afford, and its frustrating when people send or publish links I can’t access.

Yet I am also not on the public school payroll, and don’t take home near that much cash.

The real question here is, if teachers cannot afford to pay for their professional reading, why?

One reason, as we’ve said here before, is that the economic model by which teacher pay is determined…doesn’t work. It doesn’t work primarily because it goes against the grain of all that we know about human behavior in the form of economics.

Other professions all recognize this; of knowledge workers, only the teaching profession chooses to march in to the payroll office all at once to ask for a raise. Imagine if you were Northrop’s CFO and every single engineer in the company came to you at exactly the same time to negotiate a raise! How would you respond?

]]> By: sylvia martinez http://edinsanity.com/2008/09/02/about-leadertalk-and-education-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1189 sylvia martinez Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:57:40 +0000 http://edinsanity.com/?p=199#comment-1189 Does it make a difference to you that Education Week is published by a non-profit (Editorial Projects in Education)? I suppose you could say that even makes it worse, since as a non-profit, they don't pay taxes so essentially are being subsidized by the government (meaning taxpayers.) http://www.edweek.org/info/about/ Does it make a difference to you that Education Week is published by a non-profit (Editorial Projects in Education)? I suppose you could say that even makes it worse, since as a non-profit, they don’t pay taxes so essentially are being subsidized by the government (meaning taxpayers.)
http://www.edweek.org/info/about/

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