Merit Pay Could Help Bring Qualified Teachers
Merit pay has its proponents and it detractors. Most of the arguments I have read against it are always about how to measure the results accurately. This is one of the few times I have seen it approached from and angle of how merit pay can help solve the teacher shortages in specific subjects.
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Press Releases (Alexandria, VA) – Back-to-school season is the perfect time for education officials to revisit archaic pay rules that are effectively locking high-demand teachers out of classrooms, a study released today from the 350,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) concludes. The non-partisan citizen group’s analysis found that schools need to adopt modern merit-based salary structures that help private-sector firms efficiently meet their demands for skilled labor. “Simply tossing more money at prospective teachers will do very little to raise the quality of education in America,” |
