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Face the facts | Teachers’ degrees

October 05, 2012 10:00 PM

Face the Facts USA is a nonpartisan project of the George Washington University’s school of journalism. Find an expanded version of the graphic at The Sun News’ Opinion Blog, thesunnews.typepad.com/opinionblog.

FACT: Some may steer their children into private schools assuming they’ll have more qualified teachers. Maybe not: 52 percent of the nation’s 3.3 million public school teachers have a masters’ degree or better – compared with 38 percent of teachers at private schools.

Parents who think a better-educated teacher means better-performing students are right, though. Young students whose teachers hold advanced degrees produce better raw math scores.

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Extortion claims and Horry County’s problem with transparency need to be solved — now

By The Myrtle Beach Sun News Editorial Board

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