Does Wisconsin Governor Walker Care About Attracting the Best and Brightest? - McKinsey and Company says U.S. Teacher Pay is Too Low.

Kim Grimmer via a Mary Battaglia email:

Six months ago, before Governor Walker's recent initiatives had Sconnies questioning the level of pay of teachers and other public servants, McKinsey and Company, the international management consulting company, published a report on whether the United States was falling behind other industrialized nations in attracting and retaining the best possible teachers for its K-12 systems. The report was entitled: Closing the Talent Gap, Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to a Career in Teaching. One aspect that the report noted was that pay for public school teachers in the United States is too low to attract candidates from the top one-third of university graduating classes, and pay over teachers' careers does not rise as fast as that of teachers in other industrialized countries.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 9, 2011 1:37 AM
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