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Useful link, but I think your interpretation is slightly off.

I don't think that table is limited to full time teachers. Table 10 seems to make it clear that it isn't.

The full time teachers that I know put in more than 40 hours a week. That being said, the pay is usually decent when compared with the cost of living. I certainly make more than many of my relatives who are teachers in central Illinois, but the costs of living tend to offset most of that. The teachers working locally are fairly well compensated for their jobs.

From everything I've seen, outside of the sciences, computers, and mathematics fields, teachers are paid well for their education. (I'm not sure how business fits in there. )

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. :-)




My interpretation is fine.

Paragraph 3 on Page 55 (which is describing Table 5) indicates that it refers to full time teachers. It's true that the caption doesn't make it completely clear, however.

Table 10 says full time teachers work about 5.5 hours/day (averaged over a week) which adds up to 38.5 hours/week. My estimate from Table 5 was 38.25 hours/week.




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