Article: Wage Compression Driving Top Women Graduates Away from Teaching; Hoover Institution's Education Next Presents New Research on Decline in Teacher Quality.

STANFORD, Calif. -- New research published in the spring issue of Hoover Institution's Education Next explains why top women graduates aren't becoming teachers -- and it's not the reason you think.

Conventional wisdom has long held that new professional opportunities have drawn the most highly qualified women away from teaching over the past 40 years. Economists Caroline Hoxby of Harvard University and Andrew Leigh of Australian National University, however, say that's not the whole picture. Far more significant is the pay compression that has occurred within teaching since the 1960s -- brought about by the introduction of collective bargaining.

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