Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps"

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 19, 2012 @12:06AM from the teaching-the-teachers dept.

theodp writes "The White House has unveiled a proposal to create a national elite teachers corps to reward the nation's best educators in science, technology, engineering and math. In the first year, as many as 2,500 teachers in those subjects would get $20,000 stipends on top of their base salaries in exchange for a multiyear commitment to the STEM Master Teacher Corps. The Obama administration plans to expand the corps to 10,000 nationwide over the next four years, with the ultimate goal that the elite group of teachers will pass their knowledge and skills on to their colleagues to help bolster the quality of teaching nationwide."

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Teaching excellence by benjfowler · 2012-07-19 00:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

From everything I've read about successful education systems, the best systems have one feature in common: world class teachers who are valued, and paid accordingly.
I think, given what we know right now, this stands a reasonable chance of being a stunning success.
I think it's a disgrace that teaching isn't as prestigious and hard to get into as law or medicine, given it's extreme importance to the way our societies work.