Sentences with word «nonteachers»

In the 1970s, 13 percent of nonteachers said there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.

Measuring pay by weeks worked increases the weekly pay for nonteachers because they have more paid leave than teachers.

But according to the best available data, teachers work around 40 hours per week, including work outside of the classroom, about the same as nonteachers.

Based on data from the 1940 - 1990 U.S. censuses, it depicts the average years of schooling possessed by a male or a female teacher compared with the average male or female nonteacher.

But teachers are about 14 percentage points more likely to oppose abortion for any reason than highly educated nonteachers — that is, they are more conservative on the issue.

Because mostly nonteachers will be used to staff the initiative, the district will not have to pay union wages.

Next we examine the academic competence of teachers and nonteachers by college major.

A 2008 paper by Sylvia Allegretto, Sean Corcoran, and Lawrence Mishel presents a 14.1 percent wage correction for «summers off» based on 188 work days, 9 paid holidays, and 15.6 paid vacation days in a school year; 15 percent of teachers working in summer school; and nonteacher college graduates averaging a paid work year of 51 weeks (based on March CPS tabulations).

I compared teacher and nonteacher pay for 2003 in the 15 largest metropolitan areas, accounting for roughly one - third of the U.S. population.

For both the 1993 and 2000 cohorts, teachers score lower on average than nonteachers among both STEM majors and non-STEM majors, in some cases by as much as 7 SAT percentile rank points (see Figure 2).

There is still considerable overlap in the distributions of scores for teachers and nonteachers in both groups, but the gap in the academic proficiency of teachers and graduates entering other professions had clearly narrowed a great deal — and even reversed — by 2008.

First, paid leave for teachers in the ECEC data set is based on teachers» shorter 185 — day work year, versus roughly 260 days for most nonteachers.

Since wages tend to be lower across the board in rural areas, one will overestimate the nationwide teacher versus nonteacher gaps unless one takes urban and rural pay differences into account.

This would raise the productivity of skilled nonteachers, thereby raising the price of skilled labor.

Controlling for the education of nonteachers does not affect this difference.

In 2006, 50 percent of teachers said they would make pornography illegal, while only 38 percent of nonteachers shared this view.

Since we had data, by state, on the earnings of men and women who graduated from college in the same year, we could estimate the independent impact of pay parity separately for each state by calculating the ratio of female - to - male earnings of nonteachers who graduated from similar colleges at the same time.

While there is disagreement about how much economic inequality exists in the United States, about 45 percent of teachers and nonteachers believe the government ought to act to reduce income differences.

By employing nonteachers at a minimal cost to oversee the students, the district can save money and get around the teachers» contract, which limits the length of the school day.

The program aims to get pupils accustomed to learning with nonteachers through activities they can continue outside school.

In summary, based on 1) no evidence of a salary penalty when controlling for AFQT rather than years of education, 2) job switchers receiving higher salaries as teachers than as nonteachers, and 3) public school teachers receiving higher salaries than private school teachers, we conclude that the standard regression is, at best, highly misleading.

It has to do with the way that some people, mostly nonteachers, talk about the profession.

There is a small drop in average SAT percentile rankings for teachers between 1993 and 2000, from 45 to 42 (the raw SAT scores are similar for teachers in the 1993 and 2000 cohorts, but scores for nonteachers were higher for the 2000 cohort, resulting in a decrease in the average percentile rank for teachers).

Have you seen the presence of nonteachers and nonparents who care about the work make a difference for kids?

However, in the case of the 2008 cohort, scores for teachers were slightly higher for both STEM majors (by about 3 percentile rank points) and non-STEM majors (by about 2 percentile rank points) than for nonteachers.

While the vast majority of the 965 candidates seeking certification through the so - called «alternative route» are nonteachers «looking for a career change,» an estimated 25 percent are people «currently teaching in a setting other than the public schools,» said Leo F. Klagholz, director of teacher preparation and certification for the state department of education.

Unobserved skill differences between teachers and nonteachers, not a general salary bias against the teaching profession, make teacher salaries seem low.

One of the more common claims about work conditions is that teachers work longer hours than nonteachers.

Previous studies of teacher benefits have essentially stopped here, concluding that there is not much difference in benefits between teachers and nonteachers.

When controlling for AFQT scores rather than years of education, no wage gap between teachers and nonteachers is evident.

Comparing the pay and benefits of teachers and nonteachers is complicated and highlights the need for independent, arms - length assessment and high - quality data.

This means that, among women, the value of teachers» skills has grown by 15 percentage points less than the value of nonteachers» skills.

Thus, on a weekly basis, female teachers earn more on average than nonteachers.

In my article I avoided comparing the overall fringe benefit rate of teachers to nonteachers for the reason Howard Nelson notes, and then ignores.

In recent years, a number of nonteachers have performed competently as district superintendents or charter school principals.

Most school districts employ about two nonteachers for every three teachers.

Teachers also attend church and pray more than nonteachers, additional indications of their conservative leanings.

Of those nonteachers with 16or more years of schooling, 28 percent regularly attend church.

They are more liberal than nonteachers, for example, when it comes to school prayer, a stance seemingly inconsistent with their strong religious turn.

The difference between teachers and highly educated nonteachersis even greater: only 29 percent of nonteachers would make pornography illegal.

Female teachers are about 8percentage points more likely to attend church frequently than female nonteachers, and male teachers are 16 percentage points more likely to attend church frequently than male nonteachers (see Figure 3).

On the issue of free speech, teachers are progressive relative to nonteachers, but conservative relative to nonteachers with high levels of schooling.

Looking at only those with 16 or more years of schooling, we see no significant difference between teachers and nonteachers, with slightly more than one - third of each group opposing it.

If we control for the education of nonteachers, we find that teachers tend to be no more or less trusting than educated nonteachers (see Figure 4).

In fact, we find teachers of both genders to be more religious than nonteachers.

In 2006 about 57 percent of nonteachers were against the Supreme Court's ban on school prayer, while only 36 percent of teachers opposed it.

We certainly agree with this goal and have noted in the past that administrative costs, particularly the percentage of a school district's staff that is nonteachers, has been growing steadily, most notably in failing school districts.

In an effort to extend what is one of the nation's shortest school days, Chicago Public Schools plans to add 90 minutes to the schedules of 15 elementary schools using online courses and nonteachers, sources said.

In addition, 50 percent of the instructional portfolios will be evaluated by a local, nonteacher / s of record.