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Are Teachers Underpaid?
A question of value

Low Pay, Low Quality
For decades the nation has been able to school its children on the cheap by exploiting a trapped workforce of educated women. Those days are long gone.
By Peter Temin

Comparable Worth
Salary data fail to account for the shorter workday and work year in teaching. Once adjusted, teacher salaries look about right.
By Richard Vedder

features

Façade of Excellence
Stuyvesant High School’s dirty little secret
By Sol Stern

Security Detail
An inside look at school discipline
By Marc A. Epstein

Philosopher or King?
Shanker sought to transform teacher unions into a powerful voice for education reform, proposing ideas that were unconventional for a union president.
By Richard D. Kahlenberg

Locked Down
Will failing public schools let students leave?
By Ronald Brownstein

High-Stakes Research
Accountability works after all
By Eric Hanushek and Margaret (Macke) Raymond

research

Crowd Control
Does reducing class size work?
By Martin R. West and Ludger Woessmann

Learning to Earn
How higher standards affect graduation and employment
By Thomas S. Dee

check the facts

Fringe Benefits
AFT and NEA teacher salary surveys
By Michael Podgursky

Educational Achievement and Black-White Inequality
The Great Unknown by Jonathan Jacobsen et al.
By Jens Ludwig

from the editors

More Than Just Pay
Higher salaries will accomplish little without bolder reforms

correspondence

Paper tiger unions; Bronze Age of education; and nimble charters
Paper tiger unions; Bronze Age of education; and nimble charters

book reviews

Marginal Impact
Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School By James Nehring; Standards of Mind and Heart: Creating the Good High School By Peggy Silva and Robert A. Mackin; Central Park East and Its Graduates: “Learning by Heart” By David Bensman; One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons from a Small School By Eliot Levine
By Robin J. Lake

Study Abroad
Why Schools Matter: A Cross-National Comparison of Curriculum and Learning by William H. Schmidt et al.
By Stephen P. Heyneman

education matters to me

Meet Mr. Shannon
At Bronx Prep, a master teacher shares his expertise. Photograph courtesy of Kristin Kearns Jordan.
By Kristin Kearns Jordan