Performance Pay for Teachers

Performance Pay for Teachers - "More than half a century ago, the teacher single-salary schedule was designed with good reasons in mind — to promote gender and racial pay equity, to protect teachers from administrators who might make capricious employment and pay decisions, and to encourage teachers to pursue advanced academic degrees. Like the dusty blackboards still found in some school classrooms, the single-salary schedule has served its purposes and outlived its usefulness. In a new era, with challenges and opportunities before us that were unimaginable in post-World War II America, our public schools need a far more nuanced approach to professional compensation — an approach that acknowledges teaching quality as our best guarantee of student achievement."

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