Better Pay Means Better Teachers

So says the OECD's programme for international student assessment:

• High performing school systems tend to prioritise teacher pay over smaller class sizes.

• High performing systems allow schools to design curricula and establish assessment policies but don’t necessarily allow competition for students.

• Public and private schools achieve similar results, after taking account of their home backgrounds.(1)

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1'Korea and Finland top OECD’s latest PISA survey of education performance' - OECD