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Teachers have it easy : the big sacrifices and small salaries of America's teachers / Daniel Moulthrop, Nínive Clements Calegari and Dave Eggers.

By: Moulthrop, Daniel.
Contributor(s): Calegari, Nínive Clements | Eggers, Dave, author.
Publisher: New York : York : New Press ; Signature Book Services [distributor], 2006Description: xx, 355 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781595581280 (pbk.) :; 1595581286 (pbk.) :; 9781565849556 (cased); 1565849558 (cased).Subject(s): Teachers -- Salaries, etc. -- United States -- Case studies | Teachers -- Workload -- United States -- Case studies | Teachers -- Job stress -- United States -- Case studies | Teachers -- United States -- Attitudes -- Case studies
Contents:
Introduction : Do teachers have it easy? ; Why Jonathan Dearman, the heartbeat of Leadership High School, left to sell real estate --The strange and incredible lives of your children's teachers : Look Dad, my biology teacher is selling stereos at Circuit City!" ; The teachers live in another town ; It's not a bad salary if you're single ; Driving the rustbucket -- Understanding, truly understanding, what goes into effective teaching : To be a teacher ; Teaching bell to bell ; A day in the life ; So why do they bother? -- Buying in, selling out, losing faith : Crisis of faith ; They left, here's why ; "I didn't want to be poor" -- Better schools begin with better pay : Success in reform ; Solutions that aren't ; Pay now or later.

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Do teachers have it easy? ; Why Jonathan Dearman, the heartbeat of Leadership High School, left to sell real estate --The strange and incredible lives of your children's teachers : Look Dad, my biology teacher is selling stereos at Circuit City!" ; The teachers live in another town ; It's not a bad salary if you're single ; Driving the rustbucket -- Understanding, truly understanding, what goes into effective teaching : To be a teacher ; Teaching bell to bell ; A day in the life ; So why do they bother? -- Buying in, selling out, losing faith : Crisis of faith ; They left, here's why ; "I didn't want to be poor" -- Better schools begin with better pay : Success in reform ; Solutions that aren't ; Pay now or later.

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