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Re:Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public sch... by teucris on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:49AM (#34806621)
The market has plenty of evidence that better education leads to significant economic benefit[0]. Specifically, high quality education, which requires highly trained teachers, leads to higher economic growth (0.63 percentage points per half of a standard deviation of test scores, normalized against other factors)

0: https://www.educationnext.org/education-and-economic-growth/

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Re:Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public sch... by bluedino on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:15PM (#34807125)
If it was easy enough to create better education by simply paying teachers more, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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Re:Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public sch... by teucris on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:21PM (#34807248)
Surprisingly, there’s evidence that paying teachers more does lead to better teachers. It makes the jobs more competitive, causing an increase in the qualifications and expertise needed to land a job.
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