Korea Rewards Teachers

12/17/2010

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"Countries with the best-performing school systems largely recruit teachers from the top third of high school and college graduates, while the United States has difficulty attracting its top students to the profession," finds a new report, "Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching." One reason cited for this talent gap is the disparity in teachers' salaries. The following is the percentage of gross domestic product per capita spent on starting primary school teachers' salaries:

Korea — 1.28
Germany — 1.27
Turkey — 1.08
Singapore — 0.98
Netherlands — 0.87
Australia — 0.86
England — 0.85
Belgium — 0.84
Finland — 0.81
Japan — 0.81
United States — 0.79
Sweden — 0.75
France — 0.72
New Zealand — 0.70

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