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CBS Sunday Morning – How we have failed our teachers

September 15, 2019 /

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Teachers march across Broadway during a rally Friday, April 27, 2018, in Denver. More than 10,000 teachers from more than 20 districts scattered across Colorado are demonstrating as part of a burgeoning teacher uprising from the East to the interior West that is demanding more tax dollars be spent in public schools. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

“When it came time to have universal public education for all American kids, Horace Mann, the father of our public school system, said, ‘I have an idea: Let’s bring women in as teachers. Then we can expand public education and it will not cost quite as much.”

“Because we don’t have to pay women as much?” said Dokoupil.

“Exactly. At that time, it was legal — you could pay women half as much.”

 

Tony Dokoupil

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-we-have-failed-our-teachers/

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