{"title":"You Get What You Pay For: Why We Need to Invest in Strategic Compensation Reform","authors":"Matthew G. Springer","doi":"10.1080/0161956X.2023.2160110","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article draws on recent insight regarding the distribution and mobility of highly effective teachers, student access to top-performing educators, and research on the effectiveness of strategic compensation reforms to argue that the single-salary pay schedule has resulted in disturbing inequities for students and inefficiencies in resource allocation. These inequities are particularly alarming given that strategic compensation reforms hold promise for not only improving the quality of public education overall but ensuring quality educational opportunities for students from traditionally underserved communities. Simply put, strategic compensation reform can meaningfully impact public education, and it is time this potential is recognized and utilized.","PeriodicalId":39777,"journal":{"name":"Peabody Journal of Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Peabody Journal of Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2023.2160110","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This article draws on recent insight regarding the distribution and mobility of highly effective teachers, student access to top-performing educators, and research on the effectiveness of strategic compensation reforms to argue that the single-salary pay schedule has resulted in disturbing inequities for students and inefficiencies in resource allocation. These inequities are particularly alarming given that strategic compensation reforms hold promise for not only improving the quality of public education overall but ensuring quality educational opportunities for students from traditionally underserved communities. Simply put, strategic compensation reform can meaningfully impact public education, and it is time this potential is recognized and utilized.
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Peabody Journal of Education (PJE) publishes quarterly symposia in the broad area of education, including but not limited to topics related to formal institutions serving students in early childhood, pre-school, primary, elementary, intermediate, secondary, post-secondary, and tertiary education. The scope of the journal includes special kinds of educational institutions, such as those providing vocational training or the schooling for students with disabilities. PJE also welcomes manuscript submissions that concentrate on informal education dynamics, those outside the immediate framework of institutions, and education matters that are important to nations outside the United States.