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Can teacher bonuses help close the achievement gap?


Does it pay to pay teachers more? Evidence from Texas

Increasing teacher pay reduces turnover, which improves student achievement. Abstract. This study presents robust evidence on the relationship between teacher ...

NCTQ State of the States 2022: Teacher Compensation Strategies

Salaries are one of the most powerful policy levers states and school districts can use to attract qualified, effective, and diverse teachers.

Why not pay teachers $100000 a year? - The Washington Post

Higher base pay also reduces dropout rates and narrows the achievement gap between White and Black students, as well as White and Hispanic ...

Students Benefit from Teacher Incentive Pay - Texas Public Policy ...

Higher test scores, higher state accountability ratings, improved teacher morale, and lower teacher turnover prove that students are ...

9 Ways to Make Educator Pay and Benefits Competitive | NEA

While time-limited bonuses may have filled classrooms in the short term, they have not led to the long-term improvements in teacher attrition ...

What is the Teacher's Role in Closing the Achievement Gap

By learning new strategies in how they approach instructing students, lesson planning, assessing students and providing feedback, teachers can ...

Think Bigger on Incentives to Close the Denver Achievement Gap

My guess is that without significant incentives that teacher turnover will increase dramatically in schools serving low income students ...

Making Teacher Incentives Work | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

Our basic prediction is that the ABC bonus program will create a “teacher absence gap” between small schools, where the teachers have strong ...

Estimating the “Effective Teaching Gap” - Education Next

After all, evidence shows that teachers vary a great deal in their impacts on student learning, and that students taught by the best teachers ...

Teacher pay: Would a boost help high-poverty schools? - CalMatters

... teachers to close the achievement gap. “If you take (differentiated pay) off the table, there's not a lot you can do to get really high ...

The Missing Link: Estimating the Impact of Incentives on Effort and ...

School- level expected bonus is estimated using student achievement and the accountability rules defined in section 2. The teacher's effort will ...

Beyond Teacher Reassignments: Better Ways Districts Can Remedy ...

Table 2: Projected bonus amount per teacher to remedy intradistrict salary gaps. To remedy a salary gap of: The bonus in gap schools would be: 2.5%. $1,308 ...

The relationship between teacher attendance and student ...

The bonus program reduced the number of sick days taken by about 0.6 days for an average teacher; (2) When teachers try harder, students do better. Increased ...

Why Is the Achievement Gap So Large? It's Not the Teachers

Although teacher equity policies are unlikely to eliminate student achievement gaps overall, we think there is a role for education policy in ...

Filling in the Gaps of Teacher Compensation

Financial incentives, as a part of a comprehensive strategy to address teacher shortages, are a powerful tool to increase teacher preparation ...

How are school districts using strategic pay to attract and retain ...

National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance; Cowan, J., & Goldhaber, D. (2018). Do bonuses affect teacher staffing and ...

To Promote Student Achievement, a NYC School Will Pay Teachers ...

“We also find that higher teacher base salaries reduce (the) achievement gap between white and Black students, as well as between white and ...

Ways to reform teacher compensation, beyond a $60,000 minimum ...

The current policy focus on teacher compensation presents a rare opportunity to do something big in education that—if done right—could ...

Did your kids pass an AP exam? Their teacher got a bonus - AZCentral

Arizona high school teachers and schools will get $3.8 million this year in state bonuses as reward for helping students pass Advanced Placement and ...

Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from ... - RAND

three core subjects can help mathematics achievement ... achievement did not increase among students of teachers eligible for bonuses.