Deck 10: Teacher Compensation

Question 1

The philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that the public school would be the best type of education because it "would attract the most competent teachers."

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Receipt of a college diploma is evidence that a person is qualified to teach children.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The state should not spend taxpayers' money for teachers who are not trained in pedagogy.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Personnel policies of school districts are essential to help ensure that taxpayers' money is efficiently expended.

Question 5

Classroom teachers' salaries have increased dramatically since the early 1990s.

Question 6

Starting teachers' annual salaries are consistently above the level for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, poor families' relief.

Question 7

Teachers' salaries in the United States are, on average, the highest of any of the developed countries.

Question 8

Teachers' salary costs per student in the United States are well above the OECD mean.

Question 9

Teachers' salaries, as measured as percent of Gross Domestic product, is high in the United States relative to other developed countries.

Question 10

The student-to-teacher ratio in public schools of the United States is lower than in other developed countries.

Question 11

Public school teachers personally subsidize unfunded education mandates imposed by federal and state governments.

Question 12

Financial job security and teaching conditions are important motivators for quality teaching staff.

Question 13

Salary policy of local school districts should be developed with cooperation of teacher, school administrators and the community.

Question 14

The philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that the public school would be the best type of education because it "would attract the most competent teachers."

Question 15

Receipt of a college diploma is evidence that a person is qualified to teach children.

Question 16

The state should not spend taxpayers' money for teachers who are not trained in pedagogy.

Question 17

Personnel policies of school districts are essential to help ensure that taxpayers' money is efficiently expended.

Question 18

Starting teachers' annual salaries are consistently above the level for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, poor families' relief.

Question 19

What should be the underlying rationale for a school district's personnel policies?

Question 20

What criteria should be essential in establishing salary levels for teachers in a local school district? In a state?

Question 21

What was Ellwood P. Cubberley's reasoning as to why public school teachers' salaries were historically marginal in relation to the personal income of all the people?

Question 22

Why is "purchasing power parity" important when comparing teachers' salaries on an international scale?

Question 23

How do teacher salaries in the United States compare to other developed countries? How do international achievement test scores, PISA test data, compare to the salary levels of teachers in those countries?

Question 24

What are the economic costs of serving as a public school teacher? What effect do unfunded federal and state unfunded mandates have on the standard of living of teachers? How would you explain the assertion that "public school teachers personally subsidize improvements in education"?

Question 25

What are "value-added teacher productivity" studies? What do they measure?

Question 26

Teacher salary schedules should be based on several accepted principles. Can you suggest five that are commonly accepted and utilized?