What exactly is the point of a Doctorate of Education 4 year program that costs $140k? There's just no way that 90% of the people who would get such a degree would ever get a return on that investment.
Well, most of the people I know who have one went into much higher pay-rate administrative positions. Some later returned to teaching, but most didn't. I think they were more or less able to justify the cost for the higher pay.
- Jennifer Dittrich
$140k? *faints*
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Doing what? The school districts around us pay the same for a teacher with PHD as they do for one with a Masters + 40 credits.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Higher education, in some cases as well - one of the current presidential candidates at a former workplace has an EdD http://web.ysu.edu/preside... (which may or may not pay well, depending on the institution). Also, yes, I think $140k is too much for that degree.
- ellbeecee
EdDs and PhDs are for professors and administrators. Not school classroom teachers, generally speaking
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
(actually, I think paying that much for any degree is probably too much. And that's knowing that my undergrad is now more than a $200k degree http://www.colby.edu/admissi... )
- ellbeecee
In WV in order to break $100,000 you pretty much have to be in some relation to a University, or own your own business. Here's a list of the top 100 individuals on public payrolls, about 70+ are in professorship or higher educational roles. http://media.herald-dispatch.com/data_li...
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
Thanks, Janet. That definitely makes sense. Thanks to everyone else for their inputs too.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And yeah, I think that Cassie might want to teach prospective teachers at the university level someday, but she has expressed a distinct disinterest in becoming a principal or administrator at a level higher than that.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
90% of the people who bother to do the degree are either in administration or planning to go into it (usually in it if they're doing DocEd Admin, which is usually the "better" choice of the two degrees). It's pretty uncommon for a superintendent to not hold a PhD (usually in Ed, but not always) and is increasingly common for other admins on the director level and up (and, often, high school principals, although this is left common for middle and elementary school principles). Given even starting teachers are expected to have at least one Masters in major markets, however, I suspect the type of people in education with a PhD will begin to change over the next few decades, particularly in places like CA, NY, MA, and TX.
- Soup in a TARDIS