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Education > Education (Other) Should public school teachers get merit pay?

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Merit pay, inarguably, is the best solution to properly compensate educators. Teachers who are better skilled should get better pay. That definition of "better" can be arbitrary and subjective doesn't mean that merit pay is less ideal. Most of the arguments supposedly against this system are not in opposition to the idea itself, but that merit pay would be laborious to implement. However, refusing to arrive at the right answer, just because it is difficult, is neither progressive nor rational.

Let's evaluate the alternative: "Teachers should get the same pay increase every year, reg...

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