{"id":25989,"date":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2008\/01\/09\/report-teachers-earn-less-than-peers\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:51:27","slug":"report-teachers-earn-less-than-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2008\/01\/09\/report-teachers-earn-less-than-peers\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Teachers Earn Less than Peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 40 states, public school teachers fail to make as much as workers in comparable professions, such as reporters and insurance underwriters, according to a new report by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (EPE). Nationwide, teachers earn only 88 cents for every dollar paid to workers in equivalent jobs.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These findings were a new feature of the 12th annual Quality Counts<sup>1<\/sup> report, published by trade newspaper <em>Education Week<\/em>, which is published by EPE. The report, released Wednesday (Jan. 9), grades states in six categories: teacher policies; standards, assessments and accountability; school funding; K-12 achievement; school transition and alignment policies; and a child&#8217;s chances for success in life.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across these categories, a trio of Northeast states led the pack: Maryland, Massachusetts and New York. At the other end of the scale, the District of Columbia and five states barely avoided failing grades: Idaho, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada and Oregon.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main focus of this year&#8217;s report is states&#8217; teaching policies. States are ranked on factors such as how stringent their license requirements are, whether they provide mentoring programs for new teachers or incentives to teach in hard-to-staff subjects and schools, and working conditions such as class size and the level of school violence.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s report also includes a new analysis comparing teacher pay to equivalent jobs such as museum curators, registered nurses and accounting. Teacher pay was found to be deficient in 40 states.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateline.org\/live\/details\/story?contentId=269704\" target=\"window\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full report at stateline.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;notes&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"notes\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>1<\/sup> See &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/toc\/2008\/01\/10\/index.html\">Quality Counts 2008: Tapping into Teaching<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Education Week<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 40 states, public school teachers fail to make as much as workers in comparable professions, such as reporters and insurance underwriters, according to a new report by the Education Research  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