Tag Archives: teacher salaries

Should teacher and administrator salaries vary widely according to district?

The Maine Department of Education maintains a website that publishes average teacher and administrator salaries for each school district in the state. I spent a little time looking at the average salaries for my area of the state. I would be disingenuous  in saying I was surprised to find a wage gap between neighboring districts. I […]

How can your tax dollars be applied more effectively in our schools? Here are some answers!

Answers to the question of what the United States could do to improve the educational performance of our students are to be found in the current issue of OECD Observer, the magazine of  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Several articles in the current issue focus on education from an international perspective. The first […]