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Incentives to teachers must reach beyond health insurance and dental insurance. The golden rule of education is to teach with the best teachers, and thats not an over-simplification. This article illustrates a study, which shows student performance and teacher incentives to be in direct proportion - "In general, they find, teacher salary incentives are associated with a 1.3 to 2.1 point rise in test scores, about the same increase associated with increasing maternal education by three years". By adding benchmarks for teachers to meet, along with incentives, public education could be pushed to newer heights. Better pay will get you better results, that is the bottom line in almost every field. Higher pay for teachers, accompanied by higher standards, is the boost our country needs right now.

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Comment by Elavarasu D on March 28, 2011 at 10:24pm: Much needed article for the school management and teachers. Thank you sharing this wonderful article!

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Comment by Sara Redec on February 4, 2010 at 8:19am: yes, thats possible. Maybe some other model could be more effective, not necessarily tied to pay, but other, more professionally oriented incentives.

Comment by Jeffrey Fuller on February 3, 2010 at 7:35pm: I read the article, and although I would enjoy higher pay, what little evidence they presented was not enough to convince me that higher pay can be related to test scores. And with all the other variables involved regarding a students success, I think a teacher pay, and/or incentive pay would have little effect in comparison.

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