Teacher Compensation

Beginning in the late 1990s CPRE researchers based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison embarked on a project is to identify alternative salary approaches that provided strong incentives for enhancing the individual teaching capacity to teach students to high academic standards, and that rewarded groups of teachers for success. Specifically, the Teacher Compensation Project looked at how alternative pay systems might be used to better focus teacher development and classroom practice, as well as the role of compensation in organizational development. Ultimately, the Project aimed to build on the strengths of existing compensation systems in education and other sectors to make compensation an important element in support of educational reform and teaching excellence.