Statistics on the relative pay of public school teachers are routinely cited by plaintiffs in school finance (“adequacy”) lawsuits. However, comparisons of pay and benefits for public school teachers to those of professional employees in other sectors are complicated by the fact that most...

This study explored the potential acceptability of performance pay to new teachers by investigating attitudes toward performance pay of students preparing to be teachers. Focus groups and a survey of students preparing to be teachers at a large U.S. university were conducted. Most students...

Since 1996, the Chilean government has awarded teachers pay bonuses based on school performance using a complex formula that combines absolute average student test scores and inter-cohort gains from test year to test year. In this paper, we compared the bonuses schools actually received on the...