Feb 9, 2018, 3:57 PM
(from the Brookings Institution) A recent study by the Brookings Institution found that, on average, school districts that implemented performance pay to reward excellence in teaching secured new teacher hires who graduated from colleges and universities with average incoming SAT scores that were about 30 points higher than the new teacher cohorts hired by districts that did not adopt performance pay. These results held true even after accounting for districts using other pay recruitment incentives including: market-pay, hard-to-staff schools pay and more generous baseline salaries. In other words, the adoption of performance pay appears to play its own role in enabling school districts to recruit early-career teachers with higher levels of academic aptitude.
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