<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Students hated it. I suppose Khan is better?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 6:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-5428307654823730534WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 3:44 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">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?).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">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 aren’t enough STEM teachers.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">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 going away.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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