Thought for the day…

Reformy, Test Scores & Teacher Evaluation, Value-Added Teacher Evaluation 1 Minute

Many will consider this blasphemy, but, I’ve been pondering lately:

If our best public and private schools are pretty good (perhaps even better than Finland?),

And, if the majority (not all, but most) of our best AND our worst public (and private) schools use salary schedules which base teacher compensation primarily on degrees/credits/credentials obtained and years of experience or service…

Can we really attribute the failures of our worst schools  to these features of teacher compensation?

Yeah… there might be a better (more efficient and effective way), but is this really the main problem?

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Bruce D. Baker is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami and co-director and creator of the School Finance Indicators Database. Widely regarded as the nation's leading scholar on the financing of public elementary and secondary education, he has served as an expert witness in school funding litigation in more than a dozen states and has advised legislatures nationwide on funding formula design. His influence extends beyond the United States: he is collaborating with the World Bank on a global indicator system for evaluating educational adequacy. A 2024 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, he is the author of three books from Harvard Education Press, most recently Segregation & School Funding (2026, with Matthew Di Carlo), and nearly 90 peer-reviewed journal and law review articles.

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