http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/opinion/01eggers.html?_r=1&hp
After reading this article I felt very sad and discouraged. The comparison in the beginning is amazing. How when we don't get results in our military endeavors we don't punish the soldiers or take away their pay. Yet when our students provide low standardized test scores, suddenly our teachers are called "bad teachers" or possibly threatened to have their job taken away. And the statistic that teachers make 14 % less than other professions is very disheartening. Our teachers are even finding extra jobs in the evenings and summers to make ends meet. It's no wonder they are exhausted... But how can we solve this problem? Who knows....This article states that we need to find a way to make this profession very appealing to college graduates. The article compares education statistics from here in the US and in Singapore, Finland, and South Korea. They do things very differently than we do here. They pay their teachers much more, they provide training, and most importantly (I think), they only recruit the very top graduates into this profession. Amazing, it's no wonder the turnover rate is less than 3 percent in each of these countries.
As the article states, we seem to have plenty of money to send a man to the moon, or bail out the banks when they are in trouble. Hopefully someone finds a solution to the issues in Education so our children can get the top-notch education that they deserve.
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