We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.
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To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.
Great teachers should be rewarded.
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.
If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
I think good teachers are underpaid.
If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
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