There are some winners when it comes to performance-based pay for teachers: The ones who are rated “highly effective.”

The New York Times highlights some of the beneficiaries of Washington, D.C.’s new merit pay system. Several hundred teachers got big pay raises this year as a result. But not all flavors of merit pay are equal, as you will learn.

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