One needs to consider the impact of restrictive collective bargaining agreements that prevent rewarding good teachers and removing ineffective ones, intrusive court interventions, and useless teacher certification laws. (educationnext.org)
Lewis Solmon makes the case for rewarding better teachers with more money. (educationnext.org)
The fact that both teachers and students in schools participating in Project STAR were assigned randomly to classrooms allows for an especially rigorous test of whether a merit pay system can effectively reward good teachers. (educationnext.org)