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Survey finds 'Gen Y' teachers open to merit pay
- 11-10-2009
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Education Week (subscription required)
A new analysis of national survey data suggests that younger teachers may be slightly more open to merit-pay plans than their older counterparts. The report released last week by Public Agenda, of New York City, and Learning Point Associates, based in Naperville, Ill., provides a different cut on results from that of the national survey of teachers that the two organizations released last month. Focusing on “Generation Y” teachers—those who are 32 or younger—the new report finds that 71 percent of that group said they would “strongly” or “somewhat” favor merit pay for teachers who “consistently work harder, putting in more time and effort than other teachers.” Only 63 percent of older teachers, in comparison, said they would favor that kind of pay differentiation. (more...)
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