Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike past laureates, like George Stigler, the 1982 winner who has been critical of government regulation, Debreu is purely a theorist. "We have never before awarded the prize for contributions of such pure basic research," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the five-member Nobel committee. Notes Bent Hanson, chairman of...
"Teaching is not a profession in America," he said. "The fact is that all of these programs [to improve productivity] have a single thread--the need for good teachers, and a single flaw--the lack of them."
Teacher recruitment remains the root of education problems; students can't be encouraged to go into the teaching profession as specialized teachers or planners if they won't make enough when they get out into the real world to pay back their loans.
The present public outery about the schools has focused upon teachers, stressing their academic inadequacies. Beginning in July 1982, we undertook to investigate ways of attracting nontraditional candidates--persons in their middle years who have had experience in technical fields but who have not previously considered teaching, who had mastered...
...provide something that does not now exist in most school systems: a career ladder that offers opportunities for advancement. Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander's "master teacher" plan, which has yet to pass the state legislature, would provide more money ($115 million a year) and four career steps: apprentice, professional teacher, senior teacher and master teacher. Movement through the four stages would give teachers more pay for more responsibility. Those at the top could earn as much as 60% more than the base salary. The A.F.T.'s Shanker, for one, endorses the idea...