This "Informed Educator" examines the issue of performance pay for teachers. Research looking for a possible link between performance pay and student learning is examined, and implementation issues are addressed. Finally, the need to broaden the discussion of performance pay to a more comprehensive review that explicitly connects the structure of…

This 1997-98 survey reports $82,339 as the mean of the average salaries paid to assistant superintendents and $67,724 as the mean of the average salaries paid to directors of finance and business in (responding) U.S. school systems. Generally, the annual salaries for chief business officials have kept pace with those of classroom teachers and…