Twenty - nine states had initiated some sort of merit pay program for teachers by 1986. (educationnext.org)
Think about two schools, one with many more teachers than the other, both participating in a school - wide merit pay program. (educationnext.org)
The central idea here is that teachers could face relatively strong or weak incentives under the same merit pay program as a result of the number of teachers at their school. (educationnext.org)