Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality

Ballou and Podgursky analyze the issues surrounding the debate over whether increasing salaries for teachers leads to a more qualified teaching workforce. The authors find little evidence to support the link between increased salaries and teacher quality, then address two questions: 1) What went wrong? and 2) Which reforms are likely to meet with increased success?

Related Organizations

University of Rochester
United States
Northwestern University
United States
National Statistics Center
Japan
University of Illinois System
United States
American Institute of Research
United States

Keywords

teacher pay, teacher quality, teacher unions, jel: jel:I21, jel: jel:J51

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