Ideas.TED.com: Teachers open up about the (mostly lousy) economics of their dream job.

“Through the TED-Ed network, we asked 17 public school teachers working in locations from Kildare to Kathmandu, Johannesburg to Oslo, to tell us what they earned last month, and to give us a sense of how they spent their salaries.”

Also: Taylor Mali: What Teachers Make (YouTube, 3:23min), text available here.