Performance-Based Salaries.

Performance-based salaries are a reform option for improving teacher accountability in U.S. public schools. Parents and government officials want teachers to be held accountable for their effectiveness, and different pay scenarios have been created both in the United States and in other developed countries to create systems of accountability. Whether or not performance-based pay incentives result in increased student performance has not been proven. Debate continues over how, if performance-based salaries were implemented, teachers' performances ought to be assessed, and how to award salaries.