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Jack of All Trades, Master of None?
The Huffington Post is pointing out that the salary bonus teachers are paid for a master’s degree is a waste of money - since possession of this degree has little or no correlation with teacher effectiveness. Bill Gates has even joined in the fray, pointing out that his own state of Washington is wasting something like $300 million a year on the bonus.
In Ontario, too, teachers are paid more if they have a master’s degree, but I couldn’t find out how much the bonus is. The Ontario public high school teachers’ union (OSSTF) published an interesting document entittled “Where to Work in Ontario” a few years back and, although it is now out of date, the document still provides an insight into how teacher contracts work. It would be wonderful if our teacher readers were to weigh in and explain how the salary grids work and any other helpful information. I’d like to be able to estimate how much the master’s salary bonus costs Ontario annually.