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Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers
Teachers Have It Easy The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers
Author: Daniel Moulthrop, Ninve Clements Calegari, Dave Eggers, Daniel Moulthrop, Ninive Clements Calegari, Dave Eggers
Public-school teachers have protected, high-paying jobs with a leisurely midsummer vacation every year. Right? Not so. In this engaging new collection of teacher testimonials and policy proposals....[the authors] stand such hare-brained myths on their idiot heads, and tell us the ugly, shocking truth about education in America. "Teachers Have It...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780739469538
ISBN-10: 0739469533
Pages: 355
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Publisher: The New Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This book examines how teaching is not considered a profession due to how others - i.e. non-educational workers - view it. From "short work days" to "three months of summer vacations," it tells it like it is. Unless you're single, teachers must hold two-three jobs just to keep their heads above water. One question ... if people think teachers have it so easy, how come there aren't more of them?


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