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Study: Increases in teacher pay doesn't help students
Posted: 09.22.2010 at 4:55 PM
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It makes sense, paying teachers more money when their students do well; but according to a new study it doesn't work.
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It makes sense, paying teachers more money when their students do well; but according to a new study it doesn't work.

It found that students whose teachers were offered bonuses of up to $15,000 a year for improved test scores registered the same gains on standardized exams as those whose teachers were given no such incentives.

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