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Scrap the sacrosanct salary schedule; How about more pay for new teachers, less for older ones?(feature)(Viewpoint essay)

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| September 22, 2008 | Vigdor, Jacob | COPYRIGHT 2008 Hoover Institution Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

On what basis should we distribute rewards to salespeople?

It seems like a silly question, doesn't it? First, "we," meaning the public at large, don't usually get to decide such matters. Second, there are obvious systems of rewards for salespeople already in place, foremost among them the system of commissions, which pays salespersons for the value they directly contribute to a firm's operation.

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Replace the word "salespeople" with "teachers," however, and we move from the realm of silly questions to the arena of intense policy debate. Teachers are in most cases public employees. So we do, in theory at least, get to decide ...

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