Media mentions: Jones, doctoral student write op-ed in AJC; Jones quoted in AJC story on teacher base salary plan
Jones, Brody pen AJC opinion article
Stephanie Jones, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Dylan Brody, a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, co-wrote an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on ways to think about children, gender, sex assignment, binary thinking, and language that can be helpful for educators and families.
“As educators who have worked closely with young children, we have witnessed how they often live gender quite fluidly,” they said. “Many children like to be physical, play dress-up, build with blocks, pretend-feed baby dolls, be the princess, and be the construction worker. They see themselves as capable of being and living across the spectrum of what it means to be human.”
Read the full story on the AJC website.
Jones quoted in AJC regarding Stacey Abrams’ proposal to raise teacher base salaries
In a recent AJC news story, Jones spoke on a campaign promise from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to raise teacher base salaries to $50,000, up from the current base pay of $39,092. Jones said this increase would be one of several measures that could help recruit teachers.
“Eliminating the unpaid internship requirement, raising the base salary to $50,000, and giving raises to teachers already in positions that correlate with that entry-level salary of $50,000 could go a long way to recruiting teachers for sure,” she said. “The retention part will still depend on the actual working conditions of teachers, which vary wildly from place to place, but are overall extremely difficult right now.”