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Korea Rewards Teachers
December 17, 2010
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"Countries with the best-performing school systems largely recruit teachers from the top third of high school and college graduates, while the United States has difficulty attracting its top students to the profession," finds a new report, "Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching."  One reason cited for this talent gap is the disparity in teachers' salaries.  The following is the percentage of gross domestic product per capita spent on starting primary school teachers' salaries:
  • Korea — 1.28
  • Germany1.27
  • Turkey1.08
  • Singapore0.98
  • Netherlands0.87
  • Australia0.86
  • England0.85
  • Belgium0.84
  • Finland0.81
  • Japan0.81
  • United States0.79
  • Sweden0.75
  • France0.72
  • New Zealand0.70





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Linda Martini · December 17, 2010
Child Care Council of Orange County Inc.
Goshen, NY, United States


Did these statistics take into account United States teacher's benefits and pension benefits or just salaries? Do education systems compare? Do other countries consider eduation from birth to high school unlike the United States where we have the silo of education and the silo of child care - and child care educarers are paid pitifully low salaries with few benefits? Do teachers in other countries have summers off? Stats can throw off the real picture sometimes...



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