It’s nice to see both the U.S. Secretary of Education and billionaire Bill Gates call attention to the insanity of rewarding teachers for getting master’s degrees (at a cost of $300 million per year in Gates’s state of Washington alone), despite the fact that these degrees don’t produce better classroom results. This article at the first link above also notes that ninety percent of those degrees are in Education, as opposed to actual subjects of interest to teachers’ clients, like math or literature.
Pay for performance, not pedigree is a post from: Sand in the Gears