Although well-being appears to have improved for many public school teachers of kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, in some states, more teachers left their jobs at the end of the 2021-2022 school year than in the two previous school years and at rates higher than prepandemic averages. When…

This is one in a series of policy briefs on key education issues prepared by the RAND Corporation for the Obama administration. A pay-for-performance system of educator compensation has been proposed to improve teacher effectiveness and thus improve student achievement. While there is some evidence that such systems work, there are numerous …