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To: Ahda who wrote (74638)	8/7/2001 5:40:02 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116834

OT <<Information age when a teacher here gets 30,000 what does that say about how we value information ? >> Maybe this is the real reason teachers don't get paid better? Salaries Soar for NEA Union Workers By Seth Lewis CNSNews.com Correspondent August 07, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - The National Education Association's union professionals are paid far more than the teachers they represent, prompting one researcher to question the organization's lobbying motives. According to an internal NEA survey, professional staffers at the New Jersey Education Association rank first nationally with average earnings of $100,018 - nearly twice as much as the state's teachers. In Connecticut, ranked second, NEA union pros make $93,115 on average, and salaries in other states have risen by as much as 60 percent since 1991. That has Mike Antonucci - a conservative critic and watchdog of the NEA who obtained the report and published it on his Internet site - wondering whether the union cares more about making money than reforming education. The NEA lobbies for higher teacher salaries and smaller classrooms - both of which translate into increased union dues and inflated salaries for union professionals, said Antonucci. New Jersey teachers, also the highest paid in the country, average $52,000 a year, and were assessed an average of $462 in dues last year, according to the Newark Star-Ledger. As for the NEA professionals, "These are people that make a lot of money," Antonucci said. "There's no doubt about it. And they're collecting a large amount of dues from teachers in order to pay these salaries." "You have to separate what's good for education from the self-interest of the union," said Antonucci, a California-based researcher who founded the Education Intelligence Agency. While they don't dispute the survey's validity, NEA officials dismissed Antonucci's allegations and defended the salaries as suitable pay for workers who typically have graduate degrees and many years in the education industry. "What the critics do to us is what they do with teachers too: They take the attitude that anyone who has to do with education should have a suppressed salary," said Karen Joseph, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Education Association. cnsnews.com\Politics\archive\200108\POL20010807b.html

To: Ahda who wrote (74638)	8/7/2001 6:53:32 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116834

<Progess to what is what I would like to know?> Don't act so big. Your not so little. Don't miss the points about the strengths of the age. At first, Mcdonalds thought it was in the burger biz when it really was in the fast-food biz. It is difficult to see where the Information Age is leading primarily because the technologies fueling it are still being developed and at a furious rate. It is difficult also because of the breadth of the impact of information technologies to date. With so many areas of society being affected, many effects are transitory, many are insignificant, some are contradictory and some are even undesirable. Have you really missed out on the Technological Breakthroughs in Communications? I'm talking about the networking of computers as one of the defining characteristics of the Information age. Have you ever run a business where it was important to send a document overseas in a matter of minutes via Email or hold a video conference across continents? The Technology of the Information Age has become integral in my daily life. What about the uses of the Internet? Some of the current primary functions supported by the Internet are: e-mail, discussion groups, long-distance computing and file transfers. The Information Age Preserves, Updates and Disseminates Knowledge: From Manuscripts to Books to Internet books. The communications medium of networked computers enables the process of preserving, updating and disseminating knowledge to be carried one or two steps further to the immediately available, instant feedback, constantly-updated, "3-dimensional" (non-fiction) book. There are two important aspects to this. The first relates specifically to the updating of knowledge. A well-documented book can do a creditable job of addressing all the knowledge and thought up to the time of its publication, but can't address even the reaction to itself, let alone the thoughts it provokes. Subsequent editions are used to correct this problem, but are rarely published less than a year (more commonly 3-12 years for reference works) after the original. At that point, parts of the first edition are obsolete, but there is no good way to so indicate on a first edition copy. I could go on and on here but I want to touch briefly on a second point: <How do we find time for life period in this kind of situation?> Time is not primarily money. Time is Life. I delegate responsibility. I manage my time, my life, so I can play with my sons, my wife (and friends) and act silly. That's real important to me so I make Time for that.