An Exploration of the Pay Levels Needed to Attract Mathematics, Science and Technology Majors to a Career in K-12 Teaching

The research reported in this paper was partially supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, School of Education, University of WisconsinMadison (Grant No. B7136). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the institutional partners of CPRE, the Carnegie Corporation of New York or the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.

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