Guest post by Sarah D. Sparks of Inside School Research.
Those looking to improve recruitment and training of high-quality early-childhood teachers got another setback this morning, with Kiplinger, a top personal finance group, listing it among 2014-15’s top 10 worst fields to major in if you hope to have a decent career.
The “child and family studies” field has an average starting salary of $30,300, which practitioners can expect to increase little more than $7,000 by mid-career—the lowest starting and mid-career incomes on the entire list.