can current salaries attract prospective teachers
Undergraduate math and science majors say they are not attracted to teaching careers because of salary levels, perceived job demands, and their own abilities and interests. CPRE helps develop skill-based pay system
Cincinnati Public Schools has developed a knowledge- and skill-based pay system and evaluation system for teachers. Excellent teachers rewarded
Excellent teaching consists of much more than surviving many years of classrooms and stacking up lots of continuing education units, but the traditional way of measuring teachers' contributions emphasizes just those things. Measuring instructional practice
Alternative teacher pay systems can better focus teacher development and build capacity for improved practice, as well as helping to align district human resource management systems. School incentive programs deserve attention
School-based performance awards pay teachers bonuses when their schools meet performance improvement goals, and they have potential to work. Comparing Job Content: Teachers and Similar Occupations
Researcher Tony Milanowski finds that teacher occupations are rated higher than average on skills like learning strategies, monitoring, and operations analysis. They also rate higher on activities like thinking creatively, developing objectives and strategies, and judging qualities of things, services, and people. Milanowski says this finding suggests that teachers use lots of analytical skills. This analytic dimension to the profession may often be overlooked, he says, within the education policy community and beyond. Value-Added Research Center Works With TIF Grantees
VARC recently began providing technical assistance to recipients of Teacher Incentive Fund grants from the U.S. Department of Education. The 34 grantees across the U.S. receive $95 million annually to support pay-for-performance systems. VARC staff collaborate with Vanderbilt University to provide technical assistance to the Department of Education and to individual grantees as they develop and deploy their programs. | 
