Number of the Week: U.S. Teachers’ Hours Among World’s Longest - Real Time Economics - WSJ

Number of the Week: U.S. Teachers’ Hours Among World’s Longest - Real Time Economics - WSJ: "And that’s just the time teachers spend on instruction. Including hours teachers spend on work at home and outside the classroom, American primary-school educators spend 1,913 working in a year. According to data from the comparable year in a Labor Department survey, an average full-time employee works 1,932 hours a year spread out over 48 weeks (excluding two weeks vacation and federal holidays)."

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