Education Week (10/15) reported that "countries with the best-performing school systems largely recruit teachers from the top third of high school and college graduates, while the United States has difficulty attracting its top students to the profession," according to a new report by the management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co. The report's authors say "salary is keeping some top graduates away. A starting teacher in New York City makes about $45,000, while a starting lawyer makes $160,000. Nationally, starting teacher salaries average $39,000, and go up to an average maximum of $67,000." In other countries such as Singapore, however, "starting salaries...are more competitive, and teachers can receive retention bonuses of $10,000 to $36,000 every three to five years, the report says."
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