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...teacher candidates in Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands, for example, receive two to three years of graduate-level preparation for teaching, at government expense, plus a living stipend. Unlike the U.S., where teachers either go into debt to prepare for a profession that will pay them poorly or enter with little or no training, these countries made the decision to invest in a uniformly well-prepared teaching force by recruiting top candidates and paying them while they receive extensive training. With its steep climb in the international rankings, Finland has been a poster child for school improvement. Teachers learn...
...Poet Populist job description, which includes a $1,000 stipend funded by the city of Cambridge, is deliberately ambiguous to accommodate the interests of the individual who is elected, according to Weeks...
Each year, CSA accepts 30 high school freshmen. Students receive instruction from local teachers in their first two summers and receive free enrollment in Harvard Summer School courses in their third. In addition, students receive a weekly $200 stipend and a free laptop computer. Those who complete the program—as did all 30 members of the first CSA class—receive a $3,000 scholarship...
Skocpol, who will present the change at today’s meeting of the Faculty, said she viewed the increase in summer coverage as more significant than the slight stipend boost...
...You’re not going to turn Harvard down because of a thousand dollars difference in stipend levels,” Skocpol said...