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What other countries can teach the US about raising teacher pay

  • Written by David Evans, Professor of Public Policy, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Students listen to their teacher, Shuma Das, at the Sahabatpur Daspara Ananda school in Sahabatpur village, Bangladesh in 2016.Dominic Chavez/World Bank, CC BY

Teacher strikes swept the United States in 2018, from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina and beyond.

The demands varied across states, but a raise in teacher pay...

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