Performance Pay
Understand more about basing salary bonuses or raises on performance rather than solely on tenure
Student Achievement
Does Performance-Based Teacher Pay Work? Here鈥檚 What the Research Says
A performance-pay overhaul in one of the country's 10 largest districts offers a test for lessons learned from decades of experimentation.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Pay Raise Proposals Are Gaining Bipartisan Support. What's in Them?
More conservative governors are signing onto teacher pay raises, a cause that's typically been championed by Democrats.
Recruitment & Retention
A District鈥檚 Long-Term Investment in Cultivating Future Teachers Is Paying Off
Ector County, Texas, saw its teacher vacancy rate drop from 18 percent to 1 percent in less than four years.
Teaching Profession
Black Teachers, Pay Incentives, and Evaluation Systems: What New Research Shows
Black teachers in D.C. respond differently than their peers to job-evaluation pressures鈥攁nd are less likely to opt into a bonus system.
Education
Texas House Legislators Abandon Statewide Merit Pay Effort for Teachers
District superintendents called the proposal a violation of local control, while teachers said it would create incentives to teach to the test. The state is attempting to rewrite its school funding formula.
Teaching Profession
Denver Teachers to Strike Over Merit-Pay System
In Denver, teachers will go on strike Monday to protest a performance-pay system that鈥檚 been in place for 15 years. The dispute is illustrative of a larger national shift away from differentiated pay.
Teaching Profession
Explainer
Teacher Pay: How Salaries, Pensions, and Benefits Work in Schools
An 澳门跑狗论坛 primer on teacher salaries, raises, performance pay, pensions, Social Security benefits, and health-care premiums.
Teaching Profession
Two Va. School Districts Invest in Teacher Training, See Student Achievement Gains
A pair of studies presented this month show the results of five-year grant initiatives in two of Virginia's largest school districts to improve student learning in their lowest-performing schools.
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
U.S. Department of Education Announces TIF 5 Awards
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education announced the recipients Teacher Incentive Fund Round 5 grants which give school districts the opportunity to develop innovative solutions for recruiting and retaining highly effective educators.
Federal
Donald Trump Backs Merit Pay, Funds for School Choice
The GOP presidential nominee wants to give states the chance to use $20 billion in federal money to let children in poverty pick their public, charter, or private school.
Federal
Trump Pitches Using Federal Funds for School Choice, Champions Merit Pay
The GOP presidential nominee says he'd be the "nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice" and would offer states the chance to use $20 billion in federal money to create vouchers.
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
Three Wrongheaded School 'Reform' Myths
Many claims about the merits of school reform are "awash in misguided convictions," argues UFT President Michael Mulgrew.
Teaching Profession
Letter to the Editor
Some Why-and-How Questions on Teacher Merit Pay
To the Editor:
Some experts and educational economists would have us believe that rewarding "high performing" teachers with merit pay could improve student achievement. Why? Isn't using value-added modeling to tie teacher performance directly to student achievement a way to expose those educators who are underperforming in comparison with their peers?
Some experts and educational economists would have us believe that rewarding "high performing" teachers with merit pay could improve student achievement. Why? Isn't using value-added modeling to tie teacher performance directly to student achievement a way to expose those educators who are underperforming in comparison with their peers?
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Five Things to Incentivize in Teacher Compensation Plans
Does "differentiating" teacher pay (beyond the usual salary schedule) result in Better Teaching and More Learning? Can we use financial incentives to build the teacher force every school leader dreams of: bright stars relentlessly pursuing the all-important data, working 60 hours a week, cheerfully compliant?