Not only is it important for students to have the benefit of art education,
teachers in other subject areas can also benefit from the way art introduces wonder into any subject area.
But the vast majority of the city's roughly 1,100 foreign language teachers still receive no targeted professional development, as compared to weekly development
for teachers in other subjects, the paper noted.
For example, the Institute for Education Sciences reports that more than one - quarter of math and science teachers who left the profession in 2004 - 05 said that the opportunity to earn better salary and benefits was a «very important» or «extremely important» consideration, as compared with just 13 percent
of teachers in other subject areas.
To address these concerns, they «exploit the fact that the TIMSS study tested each student in both mathematics and science,» which allowed them to compare the math and science test scores of individual students whose teacher in one subject tended to emphasize a different teaching style than
their teacher in the other subject.
This allows us to compare the math and science test scores of individual students whose teacher in one subject tended to emphasize a different teaching style than
their teacher in the other subject.
Those teachers would make $ 4,100 more than
teachers in other subjects.