On Friday 02 November 2007 18:50:07 Cleveland, Kyle E. wrote:
> Ah..."teach to the test".  If I have one huge beef with Dubbya, "No
> Child Left Behind" and the resulting "teaching to the test" would be it.
> In Ohio, many schools took the "Highly Qualified Teacher" guidelines as
> set in stone and implemented the mandates that the secondary level
> teachers have 20 semester hours in the taught subject.  Whaddya
> know--Special Ed teachers teach EVERY core subject.  That means that
> certified SE teachers in Ohio would need to go back to school, full
> time, for two years in order to meet the guidelines.  They were trying
> to apply these guidelines to teachers who had been in the classroom 30+
> years!  No wonder these folks were taking early outs.  I think, in part,
> a lot of school boards used "Highly Qualified Teacher" to get rid of
> expensive teachers with lots of years in the system and replace them
> with 20-somethings who would work for $20K per year.
>

In the UK the "fresh out of college" teachers get $40k (in your money), Head 
teachers top scale is $200k!!! 

<http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=10995>

£1 ≈ $2

Cheers

Deri

PS We land at Orlando 15:25 tomorrow - sort of a late Halloween really!!

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