A comprehensive federal study sheds new light on how merit pay works — and doesn’t work
One of the big policy debates in education is whether paying teachers bonuses increases student achievement along with teachers’ bank accounts. A new federal report puts a fresh twist on this old debate: does it matter if something works if the benefit is very tiny? And its findings also shed light on why even the very best research doesn’t tell us much about how merit pay works and whether it’s worthwhile.
