Restructuring teacher career models is a resource-intensive task, which demands strong financial, human, and technical capacity. Resource constraints place limitations on policymakers during both the design and implementation stages of a career reform process and are often the biggest obstacle to success. This brief examines how adequate budget…

Since the 1990s, in both high- and low-income countries, ministries of education have found it difficult to attract and retain capable and motivated educators, with negative effects on the quality of education and ultimately on student performance. The reasons for this decline in status are different in high- and low-income countries. In the…

An increasing number of countries are moving to second-generation teacher career models, where differentiation is made between teachers on the basis of their performance rather than on their qualifications or length of service. Career structures that widen the opportunities available to teachers appear to be the most promising for teacher…