Salaries & Benefits
Education news, analysis, and opinion about pay and benefits for school and district employees
See also: Performance Pay, Retirement & Pensions, Unions, Teaching Profession
Teacher Pay, Explained: Salary, Benefits, and Pensions
Learn how teachers are compensated, and the role that states and districts play in setting pay.
Teaching Profession
Tennessee to Offer Teacher-Transfer Bonuses
Tennessee will use federal funds to encourage its best teachers to teach in underperforming schools.
Teaching Profession
Report: Teacher Pay Raises Slowed During Recession
While teacher salaries continued to increase on average during the economic downturn, they did so at a much slower pace, according to a new study from NCTQ.
Assessment
Opinion
Teachers Need Action Along With Appreciation
This is Teacher Appreciation Week and tomorrow is National Teacher Day. It is time to take action to restore respect, autonomy, and responsibility to teachers for their profession.
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
Teacher Salaries, Dropout Rates, Length of School Term, Functional Illiteracy.....
As we look at education reform in America, have the issues really changed?
Teaching Profession
Opinion
China on the Charles
Marc Tucker recaps a recent meeting with Chinese education officials where he learned more about the country's efforts to make teaching an attractive profession to promising high school graduates.
Science
Researcher: Math and Science Teachers Should Get Higher Pay
New research from the Brookings Institution provides empirical backing for the widely held notion that that math and science teachers can generally find higher paying jobs outside of education.
School Climate & Safety
Hybrid Teaching Jobs Attract Applicants
The group Public Impact is helping bring alternative staffing models to life in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
David Kirp on Education Reform
Marc Tucker finds parallels between the education reform strategies used in the U.S. school districts featured in David Kirp's new book, "Improbable Scholars", and the strategies used in the top-performing education systems. He also explains why American education policy is at war with itself.
Teaching Profession
Florida Lawmaker Eyes Performance-Pay Boost
In advance of a 2014 performance-pay mandate, a Florida lawmaker wants new salary funding to be allocated based on merit.
Federal
Students Show Progress Under Teacher-Bonus System
A performance-bonus program in Charlotte, N.C., focusing on improving instructional practices appears to pay dividends.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
You Better Start Listening to Teachers
The MetLife American Teacher Survey presented insight into the problems with teacher job satisfaction, and the frustration that is building with the bureaucratic intrusions into the demands on teachers today.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Why Educators' Wages Must Be Revamped Now
With budgets tight, states must link teacher pay to student achievement, Eric A. Hanushek writes.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Personal Teacher Salary Data Goes Online
The salary of every public school employee in Ohio is now searchable to the public via an online database, reports the Dayton Daily News.
School & District Management
Boost Teachers' Pay, Urges Fla. Governor
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has announced a proposal to raise teachers' pay, but the idea could face complications at the district level.