andrew biggs, aei.org. and his co-writer is at heritage.org.is online for democrats, you are on the "washington journal." caller: it is not whether we value teachers are not for too much. -- or too much. politicians make promises that they cannot keep. but whether we value our children. we are raising a generation of on motivated perhaps. who else would we get to take care of these kids? while we do productive things? i am sorry, we need to pay our teachers allot more for the students we are asking them to face. host: to you honestly believe that the vast majority of students are unmotivated bretz? caller: i really do. and we have all lot of teachers who cheat their way through their college degrees. -- of teachers -- cheaters out there who cheat their way through their college degrees. come on, let that guy who ran fema under bush. this guy was paid to be a college-educated professional, and he was an idiot. host: we will leave it there. guest: chris raises a good point. education is extremely important and we want our children well- educated.

host: let me cut in for a second and let andrew biggs response. first of what a find out a couple of things. you teach in bloomfield hills, mich. -- how long have you been a teacher and was subject to you teach? caller: i am a language teacher. i do not teach here. i travel among different school districts. my particular specialty is children of immigrants, mostly slavic. i go and help them during the week acclimate to the studies they have to do and things of that nature. it incenses me that someone would come on and say what he is saying about teacher's pet. -- about how much money teachers are paying. do you know what is like when you're trying to reduce teachers' salaries and you try to teach 30 kids. host: we will leave it there. guest: let me start with a language that is used. she is saying we don't like teachers. if you look at the opposite in -- the op-ed and the study, it does not contain any language like that. we are making a factual argument which is either correct or incorrect. it is what it is. if what we say it turns out to be corr

i also want to thank other friends at aei, andrew biggs, kevin hassett, and norman ornstein. i continue to seek your help and guidance. i appreciate it. mark has provided me a lot of that is because his wife is my legislative director. i know he has had a lot of late- night particularly over the last several months. alex mentioned my four months on the so-called super-committee which, in fact, i found it to be not so super most of the time, but it was an incredibly important experience to have. we learned a lot about how we can move forward even though the super-committee was not successful. one positive aspect was that i got an avalanche of good ideas. i said up reform on my website for ohioan is to give ideas. as of monday, we had 17,462 submissions. they ended up coming in from all over the country, but a lot of good common sense ideas. those include changing unemployment benefits to incentivize hiring by giving small businesses a tax incentive, privatizing and reforming fannie mae and freddie mac, a tax credit for seniors who choose to forgo medicare and social security.

host: andrew biggs from a.e.i. speaking on "washington journal" yesterday. what is your response to that? guest: well, first of all, i believe it's a piece of flawed etch research. they said raising teachers pay for security but the wns out of a job would disagree. the differential is real. it's up to 12%. even when we take into account benefits, it's %. and for women it is much, much more. 75% of all teachers are women, and that wage penalty is so high for similarly requirements for education. and i guess i take a little you mean barrage for the demeant it's less rigorous. i think i expect every teacher to be well qualified in content area. but once they have content, it's about how to teach. how to create a learning environment? how the create the individual students, come try it for a week. host: he served in other positions at the n.e.a. including vice president, secretary-treasurer. and before that he was a high school math teacher? phoenix, arizona for over two decades. joe writes on twitter, this idea of multiple measures, teachers shouldn't be evalua

then we will immediately transition to a panel discussion that will include biggs,hassett, andrew da and norman ornstein. [applause] >> alex will made the mistake of showing me years ago that he knew his way around, not only on policy but also on politics, which is a dangerous and rare combination. alex, i will tell you today that i expect you to continue to give me guidance and advice. i also want to thank other friends at aei. kevin, norm, and arthur brooks, i continue to want to seek your help and guidance. mark has provided me a lot of guidance. he has had a lot of late nights over the last several months. alex mentioned by four months on the so-called super committee, which in fact, i found to be not so super much of the time. but it was incredibly important experience to have, because through it, we learned a lot about how we can move forward, even though the super committee was not successful. one positive aspect was i got an avalanche of good ideas. at the start of the process, i set up on my website a forum for zero violins to give us ideas on deficit-reduction. -- a forum f

that is according to andrew biggs. the most successful retrenchment, one that took and tended to keep countries out of that spirals and so on, averaging 85% spending cuts to. that sounds like a victory. if it sounds like a victory to you, it is worth considering that if you're -- european and canadian conservatives can hold their libeler -- liberal counterparts to those bargains, are we supposed to believe that america -- american conservatives are incapable of making a successful deal? it seemed not likely and saying that no conservative friendly deal is ever possible, is a council of despair given the nature of america's constitutional system. this tends to be biased toward compromises and conciliation and bargains that advancing slowly rather than achieving things sweepingly all once. i think as i said, the pentagon, the scenario that he spends nights of oat. and there is good reason to think the position i and 2013 will be stronger than their republican side. there was reason enough to reject some of the dealmaking

our guest is susan casey-lefkowitz and andrew biggs of the american enterprise institute and talking about a new study on public school teacher compensation and later a look at a new study by the georgetown university center on education in the work force, anthony carnevale and the earning differences between college majors. washington journal takes your calls and emails live every morning starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. this is the korean war veterans memorial. located on the national mall in washington, d.c. just off to the side of the lincoln memorial. it's one. newer war memorials dedicatesed in 1995 and contains a larger-than-life squad on patrol drawn from each branch of the military dressed in full combat gear. next to them a 164-foot black granite wall with images etched into it of others involved in the korean war effort. among the veterans day observeses today was a ceremony at the vietnam veterans memorial on the national mall. seekers included retired general barry mccatchry and vietnam war correspondent and bronze star recipient joseph galloway who gave the