Why merit pay for teachers sounds good — but isn’t
This was written by Esther Quintero,a research associate at the Albert Shanker Institute who focuses on higher education, women in STEM, and early childhood. A version of this appeared on the institute’s blog .
By Esther Quintero
The current teacher salary scale has come under increasing fire in the modern school reform area — and not without reason. Systems where people are treated more or less the same suffer from two basic problems. There will always be “free riders,” and relatedly, others may feel their contributions are not sufficiently recognized. So what are good alternatives? Based on decades worth of economic and psychological research, measures such as merit pay are not the answer.
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