Career Ladders and Merit Pay: Capricious Fads or Fundamental Reforms?.

Rosenholtz, Susan J.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Career Ladders and Merit Pay: Capricious Fads or Fundamental Reforms?

Rosenholtz, Susan J.

Elementary School Journal, v86 n4 p513-29 Mar 1986

Suggests that the latest calls for educational reform have come from politicians, not educators, and warns that merit pay is an ineffective means of improving the quality of teaching. Points out that career ladders may work well as incentives, but only under carefully regulated conditions. (DR)

Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Merit Pay, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Morale

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Practitioners; Policymakers; Community

Language: English

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