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A Solution to America's Declining Public School System
Capital Books
March 2002
On Sale: March 19, 2002
288 pages
ISBN: 189212355X
EAN: 9781892123558
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
For parents, educators, and policymakers--an explosive new
look at public education in America that focuses on treating
good teachers like the experienced professionals they are
and eliminating the incompetents. Good teachers deserve a
$100,000 annual salary and more if public education is to
serve students well in the twenty-first century. The
$100,000 Teacher: The Solution to America’s Declining Public
School System explains just how this can be accomplished.
Imagine if every public school student spent each day with
teachers who could change their way of thinking, motivate
them to excel, and make them truly look forward to class.
Ten-year teaching veteran, Brian Crosby, provides a detailed
plan for attracting and retaining the most qualified
teachers by increasing salary potential, and eliminating
incompetent teachers by raising standards and
accountability. He explains how we can afford to increase
teacher salaries (not by raising property taxes), why the
unions are wrong in insisting teacher quality can’t be
objectively evaluated, and what it will take to make this
revolution happen. Increasing teacher salaries isn’t a new
idea, but until now, no one has clearly explained how it can
be done and why it must be done. Crosby offers new ideas
like creating a more competitive, private sector-like pay
schedule with a tiered career ladder, paying teachers
according to performance, pooling money earmarked for
special programs to create a legitimate pay scale, providing
for peer evaluations, and upgrading the daily work
conditions of teachers. The $100,000 Teacher is the book
that will inspire good teachers, inflame bad ones, and
educate parents and policymakers.
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