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Over the past decade, school districts have been experimenting with ways to raise teacher performance through incentives, such as merit pay. New York tried to offer teachers $3,000 if overall test scores went up. They did not. Teachers in Nashville were no more successful when they were offered up to $15,000. Chicago teachers who mentored younger colleagues would get bonuses if student scores went up. Again, they didn’t compared with control groups. The latest variation of this notion is paying high-performing teachers stipends to transfer to low-performing and hard-to-staff schools. The results are not surprising. Only 5 percent of 1,500 teachers studied were enticed by the incentives to transfer, and only 60 percent within that number planned to stay beyond the two years for a third year. That’s the same rate as teachers who did not get the financial incentives.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 02:00:00 +0000

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