[ExI] education

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike - what if you had a teacher whose STEM skills were so low that they
could not get a higher paying job in industry?  Could they supplement their
teaching with Khan Academy?

A teacher coming into the classroom, turning on the TV and sitting with
their paperback book while the class watches, brings to mind my experience
with teaching psych 101 by TV.
Students hated it.  I suppose Khan is better?

bill w

On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 6:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Education:  no politician would say that it is anything but #1 on their
> agenda.  But what are the facts?    For a long time teaching was done by
> women, often single, and were underpaid by any standard.  Has that
> changed?  Read the following, from Quora (I did not try to validate the
> statistics - 100K, Spike?).
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> Supply and demand is what determines the value of any profession.  We have
> the notion that all elementary and secondary teachers should be paid the
> same, but those who know science, technology, engineering and math have the
> option of higher paying careers outside of teaching.  Consequently… there
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> I see in some areas workarounds: STEM-oriented private schools where
> teachers are on different pay scales.  Like any other business, they pay
> what the market demands for the skillset they need.
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> Public schools are union-dominated which will lead to the same pay scale
> for a STEM teacher as for one whose degree is in gender studies or
> journalism or some goofy thing.  Their shortage of STEM teachers is never
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