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March 2, 2005
The Absence of Merit Pay
Here's an interesting article at Education Next on the decline in quality of those entering the teaching profession. From the conclusion:
Put another way, we cannot expect high-performing college graduates to continue to enter teaching if that is the one profession in which pay is decoupled from performance. Indeed, other professions have been raising the reward for performance over the past few decades. We suspect that this trend exacerbated the degree to which pay compression pushed high-aptitude people out of teaching. A push from one direction has more effect on someone who is being simultaneously pulled from the other direction.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 2, 2005 10:10 PM