U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is calling for a retooling of the nation’s teacher pipeline, with a higher bar for admission to schools of education, improved performance-based teacher accountability, and higher salaries. In remarks last month to a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards conference, he called for teachers to start out making $60,000 a year and to top out at around $150,000.
A version of this article appeared in the August 10, 2011 edition of Education Week as Teacher Salaries Should Start at $60,000, Duncan Says
