The ABCs of merit pay.

Stan Correy, from ABC Radio’s Background Briefing program, put together a nice program on teacher merit pay, based in part on the conference I held recently on the economics of teacher quality. Here’s the Background Briefing transcript and podcast.

John Garnaut also had a terrific piece in last Saturday’s SMH on the topic of merit pay, making things more concrete by discussing how it works in Little Rock, AK. I was pleased to see that he chatted with three of my conference speakers, Jonah Rockoff, Eric Hanushek and Lawrence Ingvarson.

And yes, I’m a week behind in posting both these links. Apologies.

[Andrew Leigh]
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