Teacher and Principal Compensation: An International Review

Originally Published:
October 1, 2006

Source:
Chartwell Publication

Education policy in America is one of the hottest topics in communities across the country. Stories abound concerning the quality of teachers, the poor quality of teacher preparation, the rate at which teachers are leaving the profession, worsening shortages of teachers and the inability of states to meet the Federal government’s minimum requirement for having certified teachers in front of school children.

The United States, however, is hardly alone in its increasing concern about getting and keeping the quality teachers it needs to remain economically competitive in the st century. Shortages of qualified teachers are pervasive in all advanced industrial countries today. Like us, these countries are finding it especially difficult to recruit teachers in mathematics, sciences, technology and computer science, and foreign languages.

Teachers and principals respond to the same incentives that all other professionals respond to. This report shows that those incentives have to be structured properly. Understanding how other industrialized nations go about reforming their school systems to meet these goals requires complex analysis and exhaustive research. As you’ll see, the United States has a lot to learn from their reform experiments—lessons we can put to good use to ensure our economy remains competitive in the 21st century.

Teacher and Principal Compensation: An International Review

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