Teacher Pension Reform



By Robert M. Costrell 11/12/2009

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Robert Costrell talks with Education Next about the ways that teacher pension plans punish short-term and mobile teachers and reward teachers who spend their entire career teaching in one state.

For more on this topic by Robert Costrell (and Michael Podgursky), please see Golden Handcuffs.




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