The Importance of Teaching for America

There is research that indicates that teach for America students perform better than regular public school teachers. We cannot build a functioning public education system on the back of short term tourist teachers who are doing it in order to have something on their resume, he says. The median American teacher makes something like $50,000 a year,. For many of the kind of elite college graduates, the people think should be going into teaching, this is simply not competitive in any sense.