“When people think the issue can be solved, it becomes a moral imperative to be part of the solution. We can do a lot more within our school districts to recruit aggressively, select people according to high standards, invest in their training and development, and foster and reward their leadership. Once we invest more in attracting, developing and retaining teachers, potential recruits will begin to see it as a profession worth considering.” PeopleThinkingSchoolCan DoMoralIssuesTeacherDevelopmentSolutionsTrainingStandardsRewardsProfessionDevelopingConsideringImperativesSelectHigh StandardsRecruitRetainingSchool Districts Author:Wendy Kopp
“We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.” SchoolCoursesChallengesInspiringPayTeachTeacherStudentsWillingIndustryHigh SchoolRewardsMathAlternativesMath And ScienceScience Teacher Author:Mark Kennedy
“I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork.” IfsWayArtMadeMightWantedSchoolCareersClearTeacherHigh SchoolRewardsMade ItArtworkArt Teacher Author:Jack Larson
“The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.” MeanFightingTeacherDoctorsRewardsGood LifeAfghanistanDeserving Author:Warren Buffett
“[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.” IfsWantMadeEnoughFactsFormArtistTurnsUniverseSimpleTeacherTalentCircumstancesDiedRewardsRuinsPretendingNutsAmbitiousWasting Your TimeMigrateEugene O Neill Author:William Monahan
“We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.” IfsKnowsLittlesArtImportantKidsYoungSpiritLiteraturePayTeacherProduceHonorAmbitionWorshipCapacityRewardsLibraryGreedProfitLawyerCelebrateGentleRemoveMaterialismCherishBarkLittle MoneyStockbrokersSweepstakes Author:Russell Baker