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Merit Pay
Shortly following World War I, school administrators instituted the principles outlined by Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management which made school environments more rigorous, efficient, and businesslike. These steps were taken to assure a higher rate of productivity, accountability, and performance. Each measure was instituted to get more out of teachers by presenting them with the proposition that their salary would be based solely on their performance in educating students. Merit pay was first instituted by Ellwood P. Cubberley, perhaps the most influential educator of his time, who presented the idea to overcome the poor uses of funds that was known as a uniform salary schedule. He encouraged school administrators that teachers who represented the high quality of education were those who were deserving of a higher salary. Also, he recommended that......

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