How Teachers Should Be Paid. Commentary to Gita Steiner-Khamsi’s Manuscript “Teach or Perish: The Stavka System and its Impact on the Quality of Instruction References”

Abstract

Gita Steiner-Khamsi’s opposition of two teacher salary systems, the “teaching load” (stavka) system and the weekly workload system, does not seem very productive. The author’s analysis of the teacher salary reform in Kyrgyzstan and of the overcrowding of schools appears to make much more sense. Gita Steiner-Khamsi’s article is also surprisingly interesting in that it gives the idea of how researchers analyze the processes in foreign education systems. teacher salary systems, teaching load, weekly workload system, teacher salary reforms, overcrowding of schools.