Collective bargaining has produced a 'single salary schedule' that pays teachers solely on a matrix of experience and graduate education, ignoring specialty (e.g., scarce math teachers) and quality, and has also led unions to bargain over classroom time, class size, and senior teachers' first choice of placement regardless of principal preference.

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Speaker

Eric Hanushek

Evidence Quote

math teachers don't appear in this matrix all teachers get paid the same for experience neither do high-quality teachers

Source

Eric Hanushek on Educational Quality and Economic Growth 8/6/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:14:21 AM

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