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- Good teaching over a sustained period can [help students] overcome the disadvantages of poverty. source
- National average starting salary for a teacher: $31,753. Beginning salary for a college graduate with a non-education major: $42,229. source
- Teachers get 88 cents to the dollar as compared to those in similar positions. source
- Fifty percent of teachers have second jobs, 20 percent outside of education and 30 percent within education. source
- In San Francisco, a teacher’s salary increases approximately $530 per year for the first fourteen years, then plateaus. source
- California superintendents believe that the most important component for an adequate education system is “a qualified, effective teaching staff.” source
- Teachers work an average of ten hours per day. source
- Over a quarter of teachers in urban elementary schools hold a Bachelor's Degree or less, compared to only 12 percent and 11 percent in suburban and rural schools, respectively. source
- Forty-six percent of public school teachers leave teaching in five years. source
- Teacher turnover costs the country $7 billion annually. source
- Quality teachers make the biggest difference in positively impacting student achievement, learning, and test scores. source
- A recent poll indicated that 60 percent of Americans believe teacher pay should be partly based on student performance. source
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