In the Spring 2009 issue of Ed Next, Podgursky and Bob Costrell wrote about the high cost of
teacher retirement benefits compared to those of workers in the private sector.
Not exact matches
In this article we use those data to
compare retirement benefit costs for public K — 12
teachers with costs for private - sector professionals.
Unhappy with those findings, they then exaggerated the value of
teacher compensation by
comparing the
retirement benefits of the small minority of
teachers who stay in the classroom for 30 years, rather than
comparing the pension
benefits for the typical
teacher to their peers in other professions.