Bill Gates Shows that Teachers Salaries are Unwittingly Based on Incompetence.

Bill Gates on How American schools are failing our children and why Government is promoting this failure:

Thus, a master's degree actually hurts performance, and seniority was irrelevant as a factor. But master's degree and seniority are the only two factors that will increase a teacher's pay.Bill Gates on the state of education, Feb 2009

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