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Debate: Merit pay for teachers
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- Argument: Merit-based pay helps attract and keep quality teachers
- Argument: Teachers should be paid more; based on merit
- Argument: Merit-pay helps attract teachers where there are shortages
- Argument: Teacher merit is too hard to measure for merit-pay to be fair
- Argument: Merit pay works in markets, can work for teachers
- Argument: Teacher merit can be measured and help determine pay
- Argument: Merit-based pay has succeeded in many places
- Argument: Merit pay does nothing to improve student performance
- Argument: Merit pay is uncommon in business, unnecessary in schools
- Argument: Merit pay for teachers risks favoritism and cronyism
- Argument: Merit pay motivates teachers to cheat on test-scoring
- Argument: Past examples of merit pay for teachers have failed
- Argument: All teachers should be paid more, not just a select few
- Argument: Teaches should be paid on merit, not seniority and titles
- Argument: Merit pay undercuts valuable cooperation between teachers
- Argument: Merit pay motivates teachers to over-focus on test scores
- Argument: Merit pay discourages teaching disadvantaged students
- Argument: Merit pay divides teacher unions, undermines collective bargaining
- Argument: Merit pay improves teaching and student learning
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- Argument: Student performance does not demonstrate teacher performance
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- Argument: Merit pay gives teachers an incentive to work harder
- Argument: Merit pay focuses teachers on measures over their passion
- Argument: Merit pay for teachers is tied to unreliable standardized tests
- Argument: Teachers unions oppose merit-based pay just to remain relevant
- Argument: Better teachers should be paid more
- Argument: While teachers can be incentivized, students cannot
- Argument: Merit pay punishes teachers assigned to "bad" students
- Argument: Merit pay for teachers would be a bureaucratic nightmare
